Peak Oil Barrel. The reported death of peak
oil has been greatly exaggerated. [Web site.]

Texas
Now Produces More Natural Gas Than All Of OPEC. Everything is bigger in Texas, especially natural
gas production. The Lone Star State alone produces more natural gas than every country in the world, except
Russia, and that includes every member state of OPEC. The American Petroleum Institute has released a
graphic showing that Texas produces 18.81 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, well above any
member of OPEC. The graphic is meant to show how hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling into
shale formations has made the U.S. the world's liquid fuels producer.

Obama
admin gives final OK to Md. natural gas facility; environmentalists sue. The Obama
administration on Thursday granted final approval to a $3.8 billion natural gas export facility in
Calvert County, Maryland — the first gas export site on the East Coast — but
environmentalists sued within hours to stop the project. After an extensive review that spanned
multiple federal agencies, the Energy Department gave the green light to the Cove Point liquefied
natural gas terminal. The move allows the project's operator, Virginia-based energy giant Dominion
Resources Inc., to ship fuel to countries with which the U.S. does not have free trade agreements.
The site, expected to come online by late 2017, is now authorized to export up to 0.77 billion
cubic feet of liquefied natural gas per day for the next 20 years.

The
Mysterious Explosion In U.S. Oil Reserves. Since 2008, domestic oil and gas production
has exploded, and so have the nation's oil and gas reserves. How is that even possible?
Weren't we supposed to be running out of oil and gas 40 years ago?

Oil
council urges US to drill in Arctic. The U.S. should immediately begin a push to
exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on
imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study to be released
Friday [3/27/2015].

The
Keystone Pipeline — Will It Ever Be Built? Canada's vast reservoir of tar
sands in eastern Alberta has long attracted people looking for alternative sources of oil. The
Athabasca Tar Sands are the largest deposit of bitumen oil in the world and that's only half of it.
Two other giant formations lie in the Peace River and Cold Lake formations. Together these total
1.7 trillion barrels of oil, equal to all the other proved reserves in the world. Since the
1970s, energy enthusiasts have been asking why this "black Golconda" (a reference to India's famous
diamond mine) was not being developed.

State of
Energy: Enough Gas for 100 Years. There is enough energy in the ground right now to
supply the needs of the U.S. for the next 100 years, and we can get to it economically. That's the
premise of Exxon-Mobil CEO, Rex Tillerson's 'State of Energy' address to the Greater Houston Partnership.

Oil
Output to Exceed 2 Million Barrels Per Day in West Texas. Thanks to technological
advances including fracking, some older oil fields in Texas are now booming again, according to the
Wall Street Journal. "Refracking" — the process of drilling in wells where fracking took
place years ago — is simultaneously taking hold of the industry and encouraging the industry's boom.

A
New American Oil Bonanza. With the Labor Day weekend approaching, the national average
price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.43 on Thursday [8/28/2014], according to the AAA motor club,
nearly a dime lower than a month ago. Energy and travel analysts project the lowest gasoline prices
this holiday weekend of any Labor Day since 2010, and the highest level of motor travel since 2008.

U.S.
Seen as Biggest Oil Producer After Overtaking Saudi Arabia. The U.S. will remain the world's biggest oil producer
this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation's economic recovery,
Bank of America Corp. said. U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas, surpassed all other
countries this year with daily output exceeding 11 million barrels in the first quarter, the bank said in a report today [7/4/2014].
The country became the world's largest natural gas producer in 2010. The International Energy Agency said in June that the U.S.
was the biggest producer of oil and natural gas liquids.

Of course, development will have to wait until the Democrats are out of the White House.Shell
announces new Gulf of Mexico discovery. Shell Oil Co. on Tuesday [7/15/2014] announced
an offshore discovery in the Gulf of Mexico it believes contains 100 million barrels of oil
equivalent. The discovery was made about 75 miles offshore in the eastern portion of the
Gulf in water that's nearly 7,500 feet deep.

America
the Lone Bright Spot in International Oil Outlook. One side effect from the chaos in
Libya following the armed conflict in 2011 has been constant disruptions of the country's
considerable supplies to the global oil market. But while its output remains just a fraction
of what it was under Qaddafi, it does seem to be rebounding recently, [...]

Texas
oil production set to top No. 2 OPEC country. Texas now is pumping 36 percent of the
nation's oil, more than doubling its production in three years, according to new federal data.
The Energy Information Administration reports that Texas oil production topped 3 million barrels
per day in April, for the first time since the late 1970s.

Doubled
Oil, Natural Gas Estimates Invite Fracking in Bakken, Three Forks. The US Geological
Survey (USGS) ignited the Williston Basin oil boom in 2008 with its assessment of over two billion
barrels of recoverable oil from the Bakken field but gave made no assessment of America's Three
Forks field to the south. The USGS just announced that its 2013 survey doubled its 2008 estimates
for combined shale oil and recoverable natural gas deposits in the Bakken and Three Forks areas of
the Williston basin to 7.4 billion barrels of oil and 6.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
The USGS survey results are expected to dramatically increase oil and gas investment in the region.

'Saudi
Dakota' Tops One Million Barrels a Day in Oil Production. It is the most remarkable
economic story of our time and it comes in the midst of the Obama economy's miserable performance.
The United States of America leads the world again in petroleum production, which includes crude oil,
natural gas, and other liquids. We're number 3 in crude oil production behind Russia and Saudi
Arabia and the Financial Times notes that we will eventually surpass both countries and
become the leading producer of crude oil in the world. Four decades of declining oil production
has been reversed in just the last 5 years.

No great loss, since Californians oppose oil drilling anyway.Government
Cuts California Oil Reserve Estimates 96 Percent. A federal agency reported Tuesday [5/20/2014] that its previous estimate of the
amount of recoverable oil from California deposits was way too optimistic. Its 2012 estimate that the Monterey formation contained
13.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil was cut to 600 million barrels, just four percent of its previous estimate. [...] The
Monterey formation has been described as "folded," "jumbled," and "shattered" instead of neatly piled up like a stack of pancakes
as in North Dakota's Bakken or the Eagle Ford formations in Texas, making it more difficult and costly for oil companies to extract the
oil deposits.

Shale riches helping
South Texas towns help pay for upgrades. South Texas communities seem to have come to the same
conclusion: The Eagle Ford is here and they'll be dealing with it for the long term. Although
no one anticipated the oil boom or was able to plan for it, communities have started devoting more
money to long-term planning. McMullen County Judge James Teal joked this week at the Eagle Ford
Consortium's annual conference that if he had known the Eagle Ford would have been so big, he would have
"probably kept my job in oil and gas."

Don't
let politics ruin Alaska's energy future. During the summer of 1977, I worked in
Alaska, 160 miles above the Arctic Circle, as a weather observer on the shores of the Chukchi Sea.
Today, I long to see this truly wild and wonderful state continue to prosper as not just a terrific
employment or tourist destination, but as an even bigger energy lifeline to the lower 48 states, as
well. But, there is considerable difficulty in tapping Alaska's frozen frontier for its copious
energy reserves. The difficulty is not so much physical as political, and the politics are sometimes
laundered through the courts.

Gushing about America's
Energy Future. In November, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recognized the remarkably positive
developments in the U.S. energy sector of the past few years. Not only did the IEA project that U.S. oil
production would exceed that of Saudi Arabia by 2020, it also projected that the United States would become virtually
energy independent by 2035. However, what the IEA did not do was emphasize how much of this good news has
occurred as the result of market forces rather than government planning aimed at securing energy independence.
The IEA is now projecting that U.S. oil production will increase markedly to over 11 million barrels a day by
2020. That should allow U.S. oil imports to decline to 4 million barrels a day from their present level
of around 10 million barrels a day. The IEA is also forecasting that the United States will become a
major natural gas exporter over the next few years.

US energy security threatened by prairie chicken and sage grouse. The Obama administration
seems hell-bent on sabotaging domestic energy production, one way or another. As James Freeman writes in the Wall Street Journal, "Delaying
approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, maintaining export limits and discouraging refinery construction haven't stopped a revolution that will
soon make the United States the world's largest producer of crude oil." But the administration, goaded by radical environmentalists, has a
new weapon to curtail production: more endangered species. Washington may add a record 757 new species to the endangered list by 2018.

The Oil and Gas Boom Booms On. The
domestic oil and gas boom is rolling on, with no end of positive effects for the American economy. At the official end of the recession,
in June 2009, we pumped 158.266 million barrels of oil that month. In November 2013, we pumped 233.051 million barrels, a
47.2 percent increase. This has led directly to much less imported oil, a much improved balance of trade, and a less influential
OPEC. But as Investor's Business Daily points out, the economic benefits of the energy boom spread far beyond the oil industry
into the economy as a whole.

An opposing viewpoint:Reversal of Fortune: The
Fate of Oil. The shale gas boom has given the U.S. another couple of decades of higher fossil
fuel production. Will we squander that bounty on riotous living, or will we set the nation up for cheap
energy and a high standard of living in the post-fossil fuel eternity? Any scientist, engineer, or
politician who has contributed to the demonizing of carbon dioxide, or has been silent on that issue,
has disqualified himself from being involved in providing the solution.

The Year of the Dud. Lots of things that
should have happened in 2013 did not. We were supposed to have long ago reached "peak oil" and an age of always-higher gas prices.
Wind and solar power — and a reduced lifestyle — were our dismal future. But someone or something did not cooperate
with gloomy government predictions. After all the failed subsidized green companies, the postponement of the Keystone Pipeline, the radical
restrictions of new gas and oil leasing on federal lands, and the promises for radical climate-change legislation curtailing carbon-energy use,
the United States nevertheless seems awash in old energy. Gas prices have been going down. Oil and natural-gas production is going up.

Time
to Call Climate Change for What It Is: The Weather. [A] report last year confirmed what I've been saying for three years now:
There's enough fossil energy available domestically for the United States to not just be energy independent, but for the U.S. to be the great
exporter of energy for the world. "Shale oil (light tight oil) is rapidly emerging as a significant and relatively low cost new unconventional
resource in the US," writes PWC in its February, 2013 report Shale oil: the next energy revolution. "There is potential for
shale oil production to spread globally over the next couple of decades. If it does, it would revolutionise global energy markets,
providing greater long term energy security at lower cost for many countries." The big winner in all this would be the United States
because it has large reserves of this type of energy.

Electricity Prices Soar
As Government Regulation Surges. In November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Electricity Price Index hit 202.284, an all-time record and
nearly 20% higher than just six years ago. This might strike some as strange, given the private-sector shale-fracking boom going on in the Midwest,
Northeast and Texas, which has led to soaring new domestic supplies of natural gas and oil. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration,
as recently as 2008 the U.S. produced 2.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. Today, it's 12.3 billion cubic feet and growing
fast — truly astounding growth.

Report:
U.S. energy industry flirting with all-time high crude-oil production record. In yet another testament to just how big a thank-you the
Obama administration owes to the oil-and-gas industry and particularly hydraulic fracturing for helping to spur onward what has otherwise very
largely been a paltry excuse for an economic "recovery," the Energy Information Administration released their 2014 energy outlook report on
Monday [12/16/2013] — and the United States has not only far and away surpassed the EIA's own forecasts of yesteryear but is
on track to hit new production records.

Second Life for an Old Oil
Field. The Permian Basin — 86,000 square miles centered on Midland, Texas — has been pumping oil since the
1920s, though production peaked at about 2 million barrels a day in the early 1970s. For decades, geologists have known that
oil could be found in different layers of rock piled up like a stack of geologic pancakes. But now drillers are starting to tap
those layers simultaneously from a single site — and are committing billions of dollars to do so.

Hackin' and frackin', &c.. What has given this
nation its dynamism recently is hackin' and frackin', computer technology and oil (and natural gas). Do you realize that the United States has passed Russia
and Saudi Arabia as the top producer of oil and natural gas in all the world? This is a greatly underreported fact. A hugely significant fact.

U.S. has
overtaken Saudi Arabia to become the world's biggest oil producer on jump in output from shale. The United States is now the world's biggest
supplier of oil overtaking the world number one, Saudi Arabia, according to latest output figures. A surge in US oil output, which includes natural
gas liquids and biofuels, has swelled 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd) since 2009. The spike in oil production is the fastest expansion over
a four-year period since Saudi Arabia's output surge from 1970-1974, energy analysis firm PIRA said in a statement.

In Oil and Gas, We're No. 1. Guess who is the world's
largest producer of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels (oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids)? For years it has been Russia, which is deeply
dependent on the production and export of such products (taxes and tariffs on them provide 40 percent of the government's budget). But this
year, probably already, Russia will be overtaken by the United States, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. U.S. oil
production increased by more than a million barrels a day last year, the largest annual increase since oil production began in 1859. Russian oil
production has been falling.

U.S. Is Overtaking Russia as Largest Oil-and-Gas Producer.
U.S. energy output has been surging in recent years, a comeback fueled by shale-rock formations of oil and natural gas that was unimaginable a decade ago.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of global data shows that the U.S. is on track to pass Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and gas combined this
year — if it hasn't already.

The US is the Gassiest Country. Over the past seven years, the US has firmly
established itself as the global king of natural gas production (and consumption). In 2011, the US produced 62.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) — more
natural gas than any country had ever produced in a single year. That record fell in 2012 when the US produced 65.7 bcfd — which represented just
over 20% of all the natural gas produced in the world.

Basic Power Gen Cost Information. Natural gas (NGCC)
power plants require the smallest investment, and while natural gas prices are below $4 per million BTU, will generate the least expensive electricity;
above $4 per million BTU, coal is likely to generate electricity at lowest cost.

The Editor says...
Natural gas and coal are two energy sources of which we have plenty. Why then must we waste money
on windmills
and solar panels?

Two West Texas plays poised for surge in
production, investment. Exploration and production giants such as Apache Corp., ConocoPhillips, and Chevron are positioned to lead an investment
boost in the oil fields, and in five years, capital expenditures could jump 57 percent to $22 billion in the two Permian Basin plays. Together,
the Bone Spring and the Wolfcamp plays could pump 1 million barrels of oil per day by 2018, Wood Mackenzie reports.

Energy Manipulation. Why is it that natural gas sells in the
U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is our huge supply. With high-tech methods of extraction
and with discovery of vast gas-rich shale deposits, estimated reserves are about 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet. That translates into more than a 100-year supply of
natural gas at current usage rates.

Texas Oil And Gas Numbers Fly Off The Charts.
We've pointed out a couple of times that Texas's oil production represents roughly 30% of the total US output, an amazing statistic, especially considering that the percentage
was below 15% just a few years ago. In May, that statistic became even more amazing, as Texas accounted for 34.5% of total US oil production, thanks to continued
production growth in the Eagle Ford Shale and in several shale plays in the Permian Basin region of West Texas.

Texas will continue to lead US oil boom. The growth in the energy sector is
expected to continue to grow like gangbusters — led by Texas, according to Karr Ingham, a petroleum economist for the Texas Alliance of
Energy Producers and creator of the Texas Petro Index, speaking at the Petroleum Club on the latest release of the index. "We would be the
14th largest oil producing country on the planet, if Texas were a country," Ingham said. "You have the Permian producing 925,000 barrels a
day and the Eagle Ford escalating to 540,000 barrels a day — that is just extraordinary."

Exactly what the environmentalists dont want:US shale oil supply shock shifts global power balance.
A steeper-than-expected rise in US shale oil reserves is about to change the global balance of power between new and existing
producers, a report says. Over the next five years, the US will account for a third of new oil supplies, according to the
International Energy Agency (IEA). The US will change from the world's leading importer of oil to a net exporter.
Demand for oil from Middle-East oil producers is set to slow as a result.

What If We Never Run Out of
Oil? In the 1970s, geologists discovered crystalline natural gas — methane hydrate, in the jargon —
beneath the seafloor. Stored mostly in broad, shallow layers on continental margins, methane hydrate exists in immense quantities;
by some estimates, it is twice as abundant as all other fossil fuels combined. Despite its plenitude, gas hydrate was long subject
to petroleum-industry skepticism. These deposits — water molecules laced into frigid cages that trap "guest molecules"
of natural gas — are strikingly unlike conventional energy reserves.

The Editor says...
"Methane hydrate" is no more jargon than "carbon dioxide." This is an example of a writer dumbing down a
technical article, presumably to avoid alienating poorly educated readers, of which there are so many.

A Tale of Two Oil States. Barely unnoticed [sic]
outside energy circles, Texas has doubled its oil output since 2005. Even with the surge in output in North Dakota's Bakken region, Texas produces
as much oil as the four next largest producing states combined.

10 Points to Consider in the Great
Natural Gas Vehicle Debate. [#3] The number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) in the world could reach 65 million by 2020,
according to the International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles, which indicates an annual growth rate of 19%. Another study by Navigant
Consulting puts this number at a much more modest (but still impressive) 35 million.

N.D. oil is more plentiful than previously thought.
The sea of oil and natural gas underneath North Dakota is far larger than first thought. There are 7.4 billion barrels of
recoverable oil in the western part of the state and extending into Montana, according to the latest estimate by the U.S. Geological
Survey. That's more than twice the oil the USGS estimated could be recovered five years ago. What's more, the USGS has
nearly tripled its estimate of the natural gas available in the area.

An Era of Endless Energy Is At Hand.
The cost of energy is one of the key determinants of economic growth, and the United States is poised to become the world's great energy
superpower for the foreseeable future. Cheap energy is like an across the board tax cut: it lifts all the boats. If
the U.S. only had a competent government, there would be no stopping us.

ND oil production has increased more than 600%.
Oil production in North Dakota has increased more than 600% in the past several years, from 35.7 million barrels of oil in 2005 to 237 million
barrels in 2012. In 2005, North Dakota was the No. 8 oil-producing state in the nation, and in just seven years has moved up to become the No. 2
state for oil output in 2012, behind only No. 1 Texas.

Gas News: North Dakota building first US oil refinery since
1976. In one of the biggest news to come out of North Dakota, one of the first domestic oil refineries in the U.S. is under construction, the first since
1976. This, and the Keystone XL oil pipeline, could help the U.S. wean itself from past over-reliance on foreign oil.

Texas oil and gas jobs flourished in 2012.
A recent report confirms what you already knew: People in the oil and gas industry make more money than you, and Texas is producing lots more oil.
The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association's "State of Energy Report" says the industry employs more than 971,000 people in the
U.S., including about 379,800 in Texas.

America
Can Drill Its Way Out Of The Middle East. Iraq, relieved of a tyrant and transformed into a representative government, is
falling under Iran's command. Meanwhile, Afghanistan resists progress. We need a new Mideast policy, which begins with a new
energy policy.

Peak
Oil Cult Is Proved Spectacularly Wrong. In December, U.S. oil exports hit a record of 3.6 million barrels per day,
thanks in part to soaring domestic petroleum production. Last year, domestic natural gas production averaged 69 billion
cubic feet per day, a record, and a 33% increase over the levels achieved back in 2005. That year, Lee Raymond, the famously
combative former CEO of ExxonMobil, declared that "gas production has peaked in North America."

UK Shale Gas Numbers Could Be
Stratospheric. While Europe dithers over whether the blatant economic success of the US shale gas 'miracle' will
translate to these shores, the UK Government has been slightly more pro-shale active. But, while the threat of (liberal
democrat-instituted) over-regulation still casts a shadow, the pro-shale (mostly conservative) wing of government looks set for
a stratospheric boost.

Oil's new reign in Texas draws
comparisons to the Kingdom. Oil production in Texas is soaring, jumping to an average 2.139 million barrels a day in
November — the best showing in more than 25 years. Analysts are chalking up Texas' booming production to shale plays,
especially South Texas' Eagle Ford, where production was minuscule just five years ago, along with a revival of West Texas' Permian Basin.

The President's Energy Policy Leaves
a Lot of Energy Out. In Obama's big Energy Speech, at the truck plant in North Carolina, he reiterated his
usual excuse that "America has just two percent of the world's oil, but we use twenty percent of the world's oil."
President Obama's two percent is that teeny little red pyramid on the top.

Oil production to grow at
fastest rate ever. Driven by the shale boom, the United States in 2014 will hit its highest daily oil production level since 1988 and
will grow oil output at the highest rate ever, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted Tuesday [1/8/2013]. U.S. daily oil
production, which averaged 6.4 million barrels a day in 2012, will surge 23 percent to average 7.9 million barrels a day in 2014,
the administration said.

California could edge out Texas in oil production.
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold 15 leases for about 18,000 acres in California's Monterey Shale, which stretches 200 miles south
from San Francisco. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates the shale formation could hold 15.4 billion barrels of oil, which would be double
the combined reserves of the Bakken formation in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford shale of South Texas, Bloomberg News reports.

Energy to Spare. Coal, natural gas, and oil remain the least
expensive and most convenient fuels. That's why they supply more than 85 percent of energy today. There are technical alternatives
to these energy sources, but no economic alternatives. [...] Americans could produce even more energy if the U.S. government freed up access to
existing resources. The U.S. alone is estimated to possess 30 billion barrels of oil reserves based on current technology. Total
resources are far greater and will yield even more recoverable supplies as technology advances. Off-shore oil deposits add even more.

Oil and Gas Jobs Hit 25-year High; Coal Slumps.
The number of oil and gas jobs in the U.S. climbed to 196,300 in November, according to Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly
jobs report. This is their highest level since February 1988. According to the BLS report, oil and gas jobs rose from 183,200
in November 2011, and grew slightly over October's numbers, continuing a trend of resilient job growth in the oil and gas sector.
Meanwhile, coal job numbers continued to slump down from 81,100 in September to 80,500 in November. Those numbers are both down
from the 87,00 coal jobs reported in November 2011.

U.S.
To 'Become Largest Global Oil Producer' By 2020, 'Net Oil Exporter' By 2030 — If We Let It. In a striking blow
for the environmental left, the International Energy Agency has released a report detailing how the United States is on track to outpace
Saudi Arabia in oil production. This surely puts the Obama administration in a bind concerning its green energy monomania that has
dominated their energy policy for the past four years. This finding shows that the United States can be energy independent, and we
have the resources to do so. However, the boot of government is trying to centralize and control those resources to expand
their dependency agenda.

IEA: U.S. to Become the World's Largest Oil
Producer Oil. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is telling us what we already know: the shale oil boom will make the global energy picture
with the United States as the top oil and natural gas producer. According to the IEA, the United States will become the world's largest producer of oil by 2017
overtaking both Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Company
drilling in Nevada could be sitting on 187 Million oil barrels. U.S. Oil and Gas, of Dublin, has been using 'groundbreaking' technologies
for its first major drilling project in Hot Creek Valley, Nevada, with local media suggesting it is sitting on an enormous oil lake. One well
could generate a breathtaking 187 million barrels of oil, reports suggested — although the company has insisted testing is not yet
complete and the size of the oil field is not yet certain.

The U.S. will be the world's leading energy producer, if we
allow it. As readers of these pages know, the key to this U.S. energy boom has been technological innovation and risk-taking funded by private
capital. Specifically, the private oil and gas industry pioneered the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) to tap
unconventional deposits such as shale that once were technologically out of reach. It also wouldn't have happened if the industry wasn't able to drill
on private land, free from federal regulation. This is a real energy revolution, even if it's far from the renewable energy dreamland of so many
government subsidies and mandates.

Barack H. Obama is doing everything he can to prevent this:U.S. Oil Output to Overtake
Saudi Arabia's by 2020. U.S. oil output is poised to surpass Saudi Arabia's in the next decade, making the world's biggest fuel
consumer almost self-reliant and putting it on track to become a net exporter, the International Energy Agency said. Growing supplies of
crude extracted through new technology including hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations will transform the U.S. into the largest
producer for about five years starting about 2020, the Paris-based adviser to 28 nations said today [11/12/2012] in its annual World
Energy Outlook.

U.S. may soon become world's top
oil producer. U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the U.S. could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest
producer. Driven by high prices and new drilling methods, U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons is on track
to rise 7 percent this year to an average of 10.9 million barrels per day. This will be the fourth straight year of
crude increases and the biggest single-year gain since 1951. The boom has surprised even the experts.

Bankrupt California. I thought of my
fellow Californian Energy Secretary Steven Chu last week, when I paid $4.89 a gallon in Gilroy for regular gas — and had to wait in line
to get it. The customers were in near revolt, but I wondered against what and whom. I mentioned to one exasperated motorist that there
are estimated to be over 20 billion barrels of oil a few miles away, in newly found reserves off the California coast. He thought I was from
Mars.

Making Sense of the U.S. Oil Boom. The U.S. has
long been seen as an energy hog. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing and deep water technology, it is now pumping more oil than it has in more than a
decade, and its growing status as a crude producer is taking the world by storm.

After Billions Of Taxpayer
Dollars, Green Transportation Is A Bust. [Scroll down] Back in 1944, the first estimate of total global crude oil reserves was 51 billion
barrels. Today, that figure is 1.4 trillion, with cumulative production over the last 66 years clocking in at twenty times the original
estimate. And regarding natural gas, the U.S. has expanded its proven domestic reserves to 2.6 trillion cubic feet — enough to power this
country for centuries to come.

Natural
gas vehicles get a second look in the U.S.. As America finds more reserves of natural gas, the auto industry is sure
to take notice. [...] New methods of extracting the gas are one of the biggest changes affecting the auto industry in years, General
Motors chief economist Mustafa Mohatarem said. "The U. S. now has a 100-year supply of natural gas," he said. "I'd make a
bet it's the next big transportation fuel. The price is so much lower than gasoline — people will find a way to
use it."

The Editor says...
And the government will find a way to tax it as a motor fuel, when natural gas is used as such.

August Reports Shows U.S. Has Plenty of
Oil, Gas and Coal. According to a story in CybercastNewsService, the Congressional Budget Office, using estimates provided by the Department of
the Interior, estimates that lifting the ban on drilling for oil in certain areas could increase the oil reserves of the United States by 30 percent.
Eight billion of those barrels of oil would are attributable to the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the rest from other federally regulated areas
such as the Outer Continental Shelf.

U.S. Oil Reserves Jumped in 2010. The Energy
Information Administration said in its annual report that proven reserves of crude oil jumped by 13%, with the highest increases seen in Texas, North Dakota
and the Gulf of Mexico. Proven reserves of natural gas rose by 12%. The increases were the highest recorded by EIA since it began publishing the
estimates in 1977.

Shale will free US from oil imports, says ex-BP boss. The big
growth in oil extracted from shale rock means the US will not need to import any crude within two decades, the former boss of BP has
said. Lord Browne told a conference in Oxford the US would be "completely independent of imported oil, probably by 2030".
He also said the amount of shale gas in the US was "effectively infinite".

The Tyrannical Agenda of
Environmental Activists. The United States has more energy resources than Saudi Arabia, but for some strange
reason we are not allowed to access these resources. As a result, we are an energy-rich nation behaving like an energy-poor
nation. Rising energy prices should be benefiting the U.S. economy thanks to our natural resource abundance, but instead
rising energy prices stifle our economy. This is entirely the result of poor political decisions, and it borders on the
surreal.

Expanded Oil Drilling Helps U.S.
Wean Itself From Mideast. America will halve its reliance on Middle East oil by the end of this decade and
could end it completely by 2035 due to declining demand and the rapid growth of new petroleum sources in the Western Hemisphere,
energy analysts now anticipate. The shift, a result of technological advances that are unlocking new sources of oil in
shale-rock formations, oil sands and deep beneath the ocean floor, carries profound consequences for the U.S. economy and
energy security.

Derry
well sites empty as low gas prices stop Marcellus Shale drillers. Natural gas prices have fallen to the lowest levels in a decade,
leading drillers to move rigs to places like Ohio where more profitable natural gas liquids and oil are available. As a result, the rigs have
taken a hiatus in Derry. The evidence can be seen on Mr. Gera's property, where the hole has been drilled but the rock hasn't been hydraulically
fractured. No gas is coming to the surface to be fed into a pipeline — and no royalties will be paid until then.

U.S. — The Saudi Arabia of Oil?
I recall how in the late 1970s, back during the dark ages of the government-caused "energy crisis," President Jimmy Carter liked to say that the
United States is "the Saudi Arabia of coal." Yes — there was a time when liberal Democrats were in favor of expanded coal use
(unlike today), and Carter's pro-coal policies led to a significant expansion of coal-fired electricity in the 1980s. But as usual Carter was
too narrow. Turns out the United States might well be regarded as the "Saudi Arabia of oil" as well as coal (not to mention natural gas, about
which everyone has caught up to speed).

U.S. hits record for distillate
exports. U.S. distillate fuel exports hit a record high in April, as production grew and imports fell to the lowest in
27 years, according to a report Thursday [7/5/2012] by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In April, the United
States shipped a net 981,000 barrels of distillate fuels per day — primarily diesel and heating oil.

The US unconventional oil
revolution: are we at the beginning of a new era for US oil? Everyone is familiar by now with the unconventional (shale) gas revolution in
the US, which has transformed US and global gas markets. Less well known to the wider public is that an unconventional (shale) oil revolution is
also gathering pace, with equally far-reaching implications. It is not unlikely that the US, the world's largest crude oil importer, could go a
long way towards self-sufficiency by 2035. This would drastically change the global energy equation.

North Dakota Achieves Record
Oil Production. North Dakota is cementing its reputation as "U.S. OPEC," with a record number of oil rigs now operating in the
state. Government records show 214 oil rigs now operating in the state, with 95 percent of the rigs producing oil from the
Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in the western part of the state.

GAO To Obama: More Oil
Than Rest Of The World. The Government Accountability Office tells Congress the Green River Formation out West contains an
"amount about equal to the entire world's proven oil reserves." So why are we keeping it locked up on federal lands?

Government,
Environmentalists Blocking Access to Rich Shale Reserves. The President has recently made a habit of claiming that oil self-sufficiency
is impossible because the US has just 2% of the world's oil reserves. However, congressional testimony given Thursday May 10th reinforces
that America is exceedingly rich in natural resources, especially a type of oil reserves known as oil shale. However, the testimony also
pointed out that the future development of these resources, 72 percent of which is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, is largely
up to the federal government. The present administration doesn't seem very eager to get at those (or other) natural resources.

GAO: Recoverable Oil in
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming 'About Equal to Entire World's Proven Oil Reserves'. The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of
mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest
the world's proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday [5/10/2012]. The GAO
testimony stressed that the federal government was in "a unique position to influence the development of oil shale" because the Green River
deposits were mostly beneath federal land.

Report: Booming Eagle Ford Shale
created 48K jobs. The Eagle Ford Shale has been touted as a modern-day Spindletop, and a study released Wednesday [5/9/2012]
underscored that view. The vast oil and gas play in South Texas contributed $25 billion in total economic output to a 20-county
South Texas region last year and provided 47,097 full-time jobs, according to a study by the Center for Community and Business Research at
the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute for Economic Development.

Republicans
say new study belies Obama claim US has 2 percent of world oil. Republican senators are accusing
President Obama of pushing a "less-than-honest" claim about the scarcity of domestic oil, after a U.S. Geological
Survey study showed the United States might actually hold a quarter of the world's untapped, undiscovered supply.
The president often uses a much different statistic in speeches. He said Tuesday [4/17/2012], as he has
before, that "the problem is we use more than 20 percent of the world's oil and we only have 2 percent
of the world's proven oil reserves."

N.D. Oil Production Surpasses
OPEC Nation Ecuador. Oil production in North Dakota has surged to more than a half-million barrels per day, now
surpassing the production levels of OPEC member Ecuador. North Dakota's 6,300 wells produce enough oil to displace U.S.
imports from foreign suppliers such as Iraq and Colombia, according to the state's Oil and Gas Division.

What Happened To Our Cheap
Oil? It didn't disappear. It's still here. [...] There hasn't been an oil refinery built in the U.S.
since 1976, ironically the same year that Jimmy Carter was elected. He was responsible for the creation of the
Department of Energy and the enabling legislation was passed and signed into law on August 4, 1977. Hundreds
of billion dollars later with a budget of $24.2 billion a year, 16,000 federal employees and approximately 10,000
contract employees, we are no closer to being independent of foreign oil. That's how a bureaucracy operates — it
produces nothing except a mechanism to drain money from taxpayers.

Rethinking America's Energy Policy.
Consider oil and natural gas. Not long ago, many believed supplies had peaked and it was only a matter of time until we
were left with nothing but dry holes in the ground and increased dependence on foreign imports. Based on this belief,
Washington decided that American taxpayers needed to spend dramatically on developing alternative supplies to replace
hydrocarbons. President Obama continues this policy today. During his recent energy public relations tour,
he repeatedly referred to Republicans as subscribers to the "flat earth" worldview because we do not share his affinity
for massive taxpayer spending on more expensive energy sources. But if anyone is stuck in the past, it's President
Obama, as he has refused to acknowledge the great potential of America's energy resources thanks to new technologies
that help us unlock them.

Is North America
the New Middle East for Oil? I don't know if North America is the next Middle East, although it's worth
recalling that we were the world's biggest oil supplier before the first well was drilled in Saudi Arabia, and DOE
estimates suggest we have as much oil left as we've produced to date since 1859.

Peak oil
doomsayers ignore human ingenuity. There has been a revolution in power production over the last decade, one
that has been driven by engineering and science. The proliferation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, means that
the US will be the world's second largest gas producer by 2035, with its output dwarfed only by Russia, according to the
International Energy Agency. The US currently has record low gas prices because the new technology has created a
glut of natural gas.

The
Old Democrat Party: FDR Expanded US Domestic Oil Production. In spite of the Obama Administration, a
rag tag assortment of small "wildcat" oil and gas entrepreneurs have proven that America has over 100 years' supply
of natural gas and over 50 years' supply of oil. With Obama's green initiatives in tatters, his new strategy
seems to be taking credit for drill, baby, drill achievements, but remains fearful of the political consequences to
build the pipelines to pump, baby, pump all that oil and gas to markets.

Scarce Oil?
U.S. Has 60 Times More Than Obama Claims When he was running for the Oval Office four years ago amid
$4-a-gallon gasoline prices, then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed the idea of expanded oil production as a way to relieve
the pain at the pump. "Even if you opened up every square inch of our land and our coasts to drilling," he said.
"America still has only 3% of the world's oil reserves." Which meant, he said, that the U.S. couldn't affect global
oil prices. It's the same rhetoric President Obama is using now, as gas prices hit $4 again, except now he puts
the figure at 2%.

On
Energy, Massachusetts Tilts At Windmills. A nationwide boom in natural gas production is set to fuel
nearly 900,000 jobs and add roughly $1,000 to annual household budgets by 2015, according to a study by HIS Global
Insight, a Denver energy research firm. It is estimated that we have at least a 100-year supply of the
relatively cheap, cleanest-burning fossil fuel.

Big Lies on Big Oil.
According to the Institute for Energy Research, we have more than 1.4 trillion barrels of oil that is [sic] technically
recoverable in the United States with existing technology. The largest deposits are located offshore, in portions of
Alaska and in shale deposits in the Rocky Mountain states. So the United States has more recoverable oil than the rest
of the non-North American world combined. The Heritage Foundation says this is enough to fuel every passenger car in
the nation for 430 years. ... When you add in recoverable resources from Canada and Mexico, the total recoverable
oil in North America exceeds 1.7 trillion barrels. "To put this in context, Saudi Arabia has about
260 billion barrels of oil in proved reserves."

U.S. oil
gusher blows out projections. The United States' rapidly declining crude oil supply has made a
stunning about-face, shredding federal oil projections and putting energy independence in sight of some analyst
forecasts. After declining to levels not seen since the 1940s, U.S. crude production began rising again in
2009. Drilling rigs have rushed into the nation's oil fields, suggesting a surge in domestic crude is on
the horizon.

Surprise! Our energy future isn't so bad.
The EIA report suggests three important conclusions. First, despite big gains in energy efficiency and
increases in "renewables" (wind, solar, biofuels), fossil fuels will remain the mainstay of America's energy
system for years. In 2010, fossil fuel represented 83 percent of U.S. energy consumption, with oil
at 37 percent, natural gas at 25 percent and coal at 21 percent.

Enough Oil? A report for November 2011
indicated that, for the first time in forty years, the U.S. was a net exporter of petroleum products. Liberals
seized on this report as evidence that the U.S. needs no acceleration in drilling, no XL pipeline — indeed,
no new exploration or production of any kind. ... In reality, the U.S. still imports 51% of its oil despite the existence
of vast undeveloped reserves to be found offshore and onshore. The fact that America imports 51% of its oil, at
huge cost and from unfriendly regimes including Venezuela, is hardly an argument to halt drilling.

Americans
Gaining Energy Independence With U.S. as Top Producer. Domestic oil output is the highest in eight
years. The U.S. is producing so much natural gas that, where the government warned four years ago of a
critical need to boost imports, it now may approve an export terminal. Methanex Corp. (MX), the world's
biggest methanol maker, said it will dismantle a factory in Chile and reassemble it in Louisiana to take
advantage of low natural gas prices. And higher mileage standards and federally mandated ethanol use,
along with slow economic growth, have curbed demand.

Oil Fields Gushing
in the U.S.. The U.S. Energy Information Administration is likely to raise by a substantial amount
its existing estimate that U.S. oil production will grow by 550,000 barrels per day by 2020, to just over six
million barrels daily.

Wake Up and
Smell the Energy. In terms of oil, the proven reserves of 1.79 trillion barrels available in
North America is more than will likely ever flow through the Strait of Hormuz and in fact twice that of all
the OPEC nations combined. That's enough to fill the tank of every passenger car in the United States
for the next 30 years. Our natural gas future is even brighter. An estimated 4.244 quadrillion
cubic feet of recoverable resources could keep every home well-heated for the next 575 winters at current
usage rates.

The
Hype Surrounding Renewable Energy. [Scroll down] America is blessed with vast amounts of
coal (providing nearly half of our electricity), and natural gas (about 23% of power). We also have huge
land and offshore oil reserves vital for transportation fuel, including enormous amounts contained along with
gas in oil shale deposits amounting to hundreds of years of supply.

Oil and Gas Bubble
Up All Over. You'll know the U.S. energy industry is really on the rebound when North Dakota's
newfangled Bakken oil field starts pumping more crude than Alaska's stalwart Prudhoe Bay. Energy experts
expect it to happen in 2012.

Informative animated graphic:Bakken formation oil and gas drilling activity
mirrors development in the Barnett. Oil production growth in the Bakken shale play mirrors somewhat
the growth in natural gas production in the Barnett play. Like the Barnett, the Bakken drilling and production
animation above shows that drilling activity built up gradually and eventually led to rapid growth, particularly
from 2006 to 2010. Production grew because of increased use of horizontal drilling and the addition of
hydraulic fracturing, coupled with elevated prices for crude oil and other natural gas liquids.

Unlimited Domestic
Energy... Right Now. The National Petroleum Council estimates that by 2035 — if the
regulators will just stop endlessly excreting new hurdles — the U.S. will hit 3 million bpd of
shale oil alone. There are about 14 to 16 new American shale oil fields just starting to be
exploited. This has led the federal Energy Information Administration to raise its estimates for total
American liquid fuel output by nearly 40% — for next year alone!

Ohio set to see oil boom thanks to
fracking. Ohio hasn't been an oil powerhouse for nearly 100 years. But thanks to
controversial new drilling technology, the state that once produced a third of the nation's crude and was the
birthplace of John D. Rockefeller's mighty Standard Oil could once again be a significant source of
domestic supply.

How
we became a net petroleum exporter again. This one will probably come as a surprise to many of
you. Despite the best (read: worst) efforts of the Obama administration and the counter-intuitive nature
of what you're paying for gas and heating bills this winter, the United States is on track to be a net exporter
of petroleum products for the first time in more than half a century.

The Volt Administration.
The United States is an energy colossus. Just this week, the state of North Dakota announced that it had
produced 488,068 barrels of oil per day in October, up 100,000 barrels from June of this year. State officials
predict that by 2013 to 2014, North Dakota will be producing 900,000 barrels a day, putting it ahead of California
and Alaska and behind only Texas (at 1.2 million barrels per day) in domestic oil production.

Climate talks, then
climate tax. Beneath our feet lies a treasure trove of affordable energy resources that warmist
adherents, who include President Obama, have placed off-limits. The United States possesses 1.4 trillion
barrels of recoverable oil, more than the oil the entire world has consumed during the past 150 years,
according to an Institute for Energy Research report released last week. Add in an estimated 2.7 quadrillion
cubic feet of recoverable natural gas and 486.1 billion short tons of recoverable coal, and our energy reserves
exceed those of any other nation on Earth.

America's Vast
Energy Resources. For a long time, the Left has gotten away with underselling America's energy
resources. The old chestnut that the U.S. uses 25% of the world's oil but only has 2% to 3% of
the world's oil reserves has been repeated endlessly by Barack Obama and many others. This claim fooled
millions of people who didn't understand that in the U.S., "reserves" means petroleum that is 1) legally
available for development, and 2) profitably extracted at current prices. So if Democrats would
stop preventing drilling, we could vastly increase our "reserves," as legally defined, overnight.

Oil-Rich America?
There is a revolution going on in America. But it is not part of the Tea Party or the loud Occupy Wall Street
protests. Instead, massive new reserves of gas, oil, and coal are being discovered almost everywhere in the United
States, due to revolutionary methods of exploration and exploitation such as fracking and horizontal drilling. Current
prices of over $100 a barrel make even complex efforts at recovery enormously profitable.

Gasoline: The new big U.S.
export. The United States is awash in gasoline. So much so, in fact, that the country is
exporting a record amount of it. The country exported 430,000 more barrels of gasoline a day than it
imported in September, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Green
Energy Skepticism. Although our energy needs have been increasing rapidly, the U.S. didn't build
a new refinery between 1998 and 2008, even then over the strong objections of liberal progressives. ... Saying
that the U.S. is rich in energy resources is an understatement. At today's consumption levels, we have
enough coal to meet our needs for the next 500 years. We have 22,450,000,000 barrels of proven oil
reserves, and we are finding new oil reserves all the time. The U.S. has 250 trillion cubic feet of
proven natural gas reserves. We are finding new gas reserves daily, and we are discovering new ways to
tap into hard-to-get gas deposits.

The
Oil Industry Can Save America — If Washington Lets It. Have we drained the "natural
wealth" of America dry? Hardly. Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm sees the big picture of
American wealth. As head of the 14th-largest oil company in the nation, he knows how much fossil fuel
America possesses. He observes that if America had the right energy policies, it could be "completely
energy independent by the end of the decade. We can become the Saudi Arabia of oil and gas in the
21st century. President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy." Hamm adds that so-called
"green energy," despite billions in taxpayer subsidies, will not work.

A Disastrous Presidency.
The gulf lost 40,000 jobs when the president decided it was best to shut down all oil production after the BP oil
spill. The approval for Keystone XL Pipeline sits on his desk, awaiting his signature. It would
connect Canadian oil from the tar sands of Alberta with refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma and Nederland, Texas,
while providing 20,000 direct jobs and 100,000 indirect jobs. With recent discoveries and improvements in
drilling techniques, some have called America the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. America also has the
largest oil reserves in the world; the Bakken Formation alone is said to contain more than 11 billion
barrels.

Tight oil loosens up. Vast fortunes await
those willing to quickly claim Canada's still-unknown troves of tight oil reserves, though it may cost them a small fortune first. New technologies
have provided access to energy resources that for decades appeared wholly unreachable. Advanced horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic
fracturing (fracking) techniques have in recent years spawned countless land grabs across North America for new plays like the Bakken. Interest
has also been reignited for older plays like the Cardium.

Warren
Buffett, the Keystone Pipeline, and Crony Capitalism. A decades-long crusade by the environmental
left to convince us that oil is evil, unsustainable, and destroying our planet has yet to accomplish its goal
of eliminating oil as a fuel, but it has succeeded in making oil [very] expensive. However, new technologies
for the extraction and transport of previously unrecoverable oil promise to reverse that trend. One such
project is the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport bitumen from the oil sands of Alberta to
the refineries and ports along the Gulf coast.

Activists
Move to Prevent Canada from Supplying U.S. with Oil. Canada is eager to provide the United States
with valuable oil from a friendly nation, but environmental activists are urging the Obama administration to block
construction of an oil pipeline that would deliver the oil from western Canada to refineries in Texas.
At issue is a long-delayed, $7 billion, 1,700-mile expansion of a pipeline that would make possible the
sending of crude oil from Alberta's oil sands to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas.

Science, Lies, and
Videotape. [Scroll down] As the world economy weakens and it turns out that we are
sitting on enormous quantities of natural gas and oil, it grows more likely that this childish
nonsense — which, probably not coincidentally, has proven a financial boon for Democrat-backers,
too — shall pass. But faster, please, so we can get back to being the world's powerhouse.

How North Dakota
Became Saudi Arabia. Harold Hamm ... came to Washington last month to spread a needed message
of economic optimism: With the right set of national energy policies, the United States could be
"completely energy independent by the end of the decade. We can be the Saudi Arabia of oil and
natural gas in the 21st century."

Report:
North American oil output will hit all-time record by 2016. U.S. oil production in areas like the
Permian Basin, the Eagle Ford, Bakken and others will rise by a little over 2 million barrels per day
between 2010 and 2016, according to data compiled by Bentek Energy, a Colorado firm that tracks energy
infrastructure and production projects. It's a reversal of the steady downward production trend that
started around 1970, when U.S. oil production peaked at around 9.5 million barrels per day.

America Can Be An Energy
Superpower. America could have enough oil resources to meet today's oil demand levels in the
future for decades without importing from unfriendly foreign countries. That is the conclusion of a
new report from the National Petroleum Council. The report also finds that America has huge volumes
of natural gas that can meet decades of demand.

Chevron
makes potentially big oil find in Gulf's Moccasin play. Chevron has made a new oil
discovery in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. ... Chevron started drilling the well in March 2010
but had to stop in June 2010 when the U.S. government imposed a moratorium on deepwater drilling
in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon accident. In March 2011 it became the
first wildcat well in the Gulf to resume drilling after the accident.

Blueprint
for Western Energy Prosperity. The West is projected to generate 1.3 million barrels of
domestic oil and condensate production a day by the year 2020, an amount that exceeds the current daily oil
imports from Russia, Iraq and Kuwait combined.

Exxon
makes major oil discovery in Gulf. Exxon Mobil said Wednesday [6/8/2011] it has discovered an
estimated 700 million barrels of oil equivalent at a deepwater well off the Louisiana coast, a major find
that a top House Republican argued should push the administration to speed up offshore permitting. "This
is one of the largest discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico in the last decade," Exxon Mobil Exploration Company
President Steve Greenlee said in a statement.

Drill
here Drill now works -- because it already has!. Once again the fraudulent message from the
environmental activists in the EPA is being echoed by a willing media, claiming drill here drill now won't
have an effect on gas prices when there is irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Where is the proof you
ask? Currently there is one commodity that has not adjusted with inflation, is not tied to the
devaluation of the Dollar, nor follows the rise in Gold and Oil. America's Natural Gas is trading at
2003 rates and when adjusted for inflation is closer to 2000 rates. Why? Because multitudes of
Americans are developing this vast resource not a handful of multinational concerns. They are bringing
an abundant supply of American energy to the market; in New York State alone we have over 3000 gas wells.

The Big Energy Lie.
Geologists and engineers make estimates of petroleum resources, the total potential future recoverable
quantity of oil and/or gas. Right now, the U.S. has considerable potential resources in places
like the Outer Continental Shelf, ANWR and the Colorado Oil Shale. Reserves, on the other hand, is the
term applied to that subset of resources that have been proven to exist by drilling and can be
recovered with existing technology.

The truth behind all that 'The U.S. has only 2% of the world's oil reserves' malarkey.The Big Energy Lie,
Revisited. In 1986, we produced 8.7 million barrels a day, or an annual total of 3.2 billion
barrels. The ratio of reserves to production is 8.5 years — often incorrectly reported in the
press with alarm: "We have only 8.5 years of reserves left! We're running out of oil!"
If this were true, we'd have run slap out of oil in 1995. The dashed line on the graph [in this article]
shows the cumulative amount of oil produced since 1986. Sure enough, by 1995 we had produced over
27 billion barrels, and we still had reserves in the ground of over 22 billion barrels.
Fast forward to 2010: we're still producing 2 billion barrels a year, and we still have over
20 billion barrels in the ground. In fact, we've produced 58 billion barrels since 1986,
over twice the 1986 reserve total.

The
incoherence of Obama's energy policies: As Americans watch skyrocketing gasoline prices (up an
average of nearly 80 cents a gallon from this time last year) frustrate their hopes for economic recovery,
they should be outraged by a new report on America's energy resources from the Congressional Research Service.
The report shows that the United States is sitting on the largest batch of energy resources on the planet.
In fact, these vital fuel sources add up to more than the resources of energy-rich Saudi Arabia, China and Canada
combined.

Straw
Man Environmental Alarmism 101, California Style. How many times must it be proved that the
world is not close to "exhausting its supply of petroleum" before environmentalists stop making the claim?
And as Americans are realizing in greater and greater numbers, there is no objective support for the shrill
claim that "greenhouse gas emissions… threaten the planet we call home."

Oil Without
Apologies. It's the day after President Obama delivered his most recent vision of America's
energy future, and I'm sitting in the sunny corporate offices of Chevron, the country's second-largest oil
company. Let's just say John Watson has a different view. The Chevron CEO is a rare breed these
days: an unapologetic oil man.

Drill, Baby, Drill
(Again). It may come as a shock to many that rather than having a mere 2 percent of
global reserves, this country is energy-rich, with known reserves far exceeding those of any other
nation. Many Americans already know that our proven coal reserves will hold out for another
400 years — and probably much longer. Less well known is that in recent years there has been a quiet
natural-gas revolution in this country. [...] Even less well known is that the U.S. sits on at least three times as
much recoverable oil as the entire Middle East. The techniques used to uncover vast new
sources of natural gas, are now being transferred to the shale-oil deposits in the Midwest,
where they are unlocking trillions of barrels of oil.

Energy Secretary:
I'm Not Going To Talk About Drilling In ANWR. After testifying before the House
Energy and Water Development Subcommittee about his department's FY2012 budget, CNSNews.com
asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu if — given the high price of gasoline —
he supports increasing offshore drilling and opening up ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] to domestic
drilling? Chu responded, "I'm not going to talk about ANWR, but I think there's many areas in the
arctic that are potential exploration sites.

U.S. Has Earth's Largest Energy
Resources. America's combined energy resources are, according to a new report from
the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the largest on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia
(3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined — and that's without including America's
shale oil deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates.
The energy facts in the CRS report should be making front page news all over America.
Mostly it isn't.

Solving US Energy Problems:
The big problem is the Democratic agenda to destroy US oil. Currently, this agenda is well
illustrated in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's Macondo Prospect well, which blew out in the Gulf of
Mexico last year, was reported by the federal government to be producing 62,000 barrels of oil per
day. At the present oil price, that is $2.2 Billion a year. This well may have been
the largest oil well in the history of the world. Yet, it was plugged and abandoned, and the federal
government would not allow the development of the large oil reservoir it was in, which may have created
thousands of new jobs. No other nation on earth would do that to an oil well which may have been
the largest oil well in world history.

Green Goons. It's getting so people
are afraid to drive more than 150 miles for fear that they won't be able to afford the gas to get home
again. Still, President Obama refuses to allow oil development either on government-owned land or just
off our coasts. We have enough petroleum in the ground right here in the United States to last us
centuries but Obama, the Democrats and their green goons won't let us get at it for fear there might be a
spill and a sea gull might get oil on its wings. It's all right though to send $1,000,000,000 a day to
Muslim countries who use much of it to finance jihad against us in their radical quest to destroy western
civilization. Our liberal Democrat rulers want fossil-fuel energy prices to go up in hopes that
Americans will turn to solar panels, windmills and Chevy Volts.

The Green Dream Is an
Economic Nightmare. A rush of recent reports on energy has much to say about the fundamental
foolishness of the green vision of energy production — the vision long regnant in academia and
the one that informs the Obama regime. ... The first report is the happy news that the number of new American
oil wells is increasing at a pace not seen in over three decades. According to the major oil drilling company
Baker Hughes, the number of new oil rigs it has installed is over 800 last year — over twice last
year's total, and a tenfold increase over the yearly average during the late 1990s.

Deliberately
making Americans poorer. The Obama administration's policies are causing Americans to pay far
more for gasoline and other fuels than necessary. America is awash in fossil-fuel energy sources with
almost 30 percent of the world's coal and 80 percent of the world's oil shale — which
contains an estimated three times the recoverable oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Canada, with its
oil sands, has the world's third-highest oil reserves, after the United States and Saudi Arabia. New
technologies that enable low-cost natural gas production from shale mean that many countries, including the
United States, will have gas for centuries at current production rates.

Canada's
Oil Sands Are a Jobs Gusher. For all its soaring rhetoric, President Obama's "jobs
speech" last week didn't demonstrate a lick of insight into why economies grow or how wealth is
created. It was merely trademark Obamanomics: using government diktat to move money
that's over here, over there. Having spent an hour the day before with Ron Liepert, the
energy minister from the Canadian province of Alberta, I found it especially disturbing to
hear nothing in the speech about reversing the administration's anti-fossil-fuels agenda.

Eagle
Ford seen fueling fast growth. The Eagle Ford shale, a vast oil and gas play in South Texas,
will become one of the state's fastest-growing areas for new business and job creation over the next decade,
a group of experts said Wednesday [2/23/2011]. That's if they can get the oil out. Pipelines
already are full, and companies are having to truck it out or ship it by rail.

Wind
Power: Questionable Benefits, Concealed Impacts. America (and the world) are tapping vast,
previously undreamed-of energy riches — as drillers discover how to produce gas from shale, coal and
tight sandstone formations, at reasonable cost. ... The bountiful new supplies make environmentalist dogmas
passé: the end of the hydrocarbon era, America as an energy pauper, immutable Club of Rome doctrines
of sustainability and imminent resource depletion, the Pickens' Plan and forests of wind turbines.

A
Shale Of A Difference. On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Obama
administration is going to take a "fresh look" at oil shale leasing rules put forward in 2008 by President
George W. Bush to develop oil-rich land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. ... The Bush rules would have
opened up about 2 million acres of federal land in what is known as the Green River Formation to the
possible commercial-scale development of oil shale and tar sands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates
the region, dubbed the "Persia of the West," may hold more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times
the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia, and enough to meet U.S. oil needs for the next two centuries.

Is America's Energy Policy Perverse?
The U.S. is the only country in the world that, as a matter of policy, does not develop its own energy
reserves. It is hard to see a rational basis for that policy.

The Bakken factor. The
news may not rate with a No. 1 ranking in the college football polls, but residents of North Dakota have
reason — make that 11 billion reasons — to have their own celebration in this new year. Eleven
billion barrels is the latest estimate of reserves in the state's share of the Bakken Formation, which extends
for some 25,000 square miles from Canada down into Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. Increasingly, the
Bakken is being viewed as a major oil resource in the United States.

2011 may be a gusher in South Texas.
Though still facing uncertainty on many fronts as 2011 begins, the oil and gas industry knows one thing:
It likes what it sees in South Texas. That's the site of the Eagle Ford shale formation, a vast
underground network of dense rock layers, discovered only recently and now thought to be one of the nation's
biggest oil and gas fields.

Energy
independence is close at hand. Washington's political class often seems impervious to changing facts.
Case in point is the nation's current and probable future access to essential energy resources, especially fossil fuels
like oil, natural gas and coal. This trio of carbon-based fuels accounts for the vast majority of the nation's
electrical and other forms of power, and will continue to do so through at least 2030, according to the U.S. Department
of Energy. The United States is the world's largest consumer of energy, but is also the world's most productive
economy, so demand here for energy resources is going to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

A
Few Questions for President Obama. [Scroll down] America is not running out of oil.
It is running out of places the government allows us to drill. ... Companies have been drilling in deep
waters, because most onshore and shallow water areas are off limits.

The U.S. has an abundance
of fossil fuels. Most Americans are surprised to find out that the two largest suppliers of oil to
the United States are Canada and Mexico. Each nation draws billions of dollars in economic activity from the
United States to provide these vast supplies. Is it not logical to conclude that the United States, lodged
between these two massive suppliers, has resources of its own that remain untapped? Of the three major fossil
fuels, the United States is in the top ten of two of the fossil fuels' proven reserves globally. The U.S. has
the largest proven reserves of coal and the fifth-largest proven reserves of natural gas.

Firms announce big oil find
beneath shallow Gulf waters. McMoRan Exploration Co. today announced what it said could be one
of the largest oil and natural gas discoveries in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico in decades. The
discovery was made at the Davy Jones ultra-deep prospect located on South Marsh Island Block 230 in
about 20 feet of water and 10 miles off the Louisiana coast, the New Orleans company and Energy XXI,
one of its Houston partners in the project, said in statements this morning.

Governor announces
1.9 billion barrels in Three Forks. The Three Forks Formation could yield nearly 2 billion barrels
of petroleum, according to a geologic study released today [4/29/2010] by the North Dakota Geological Survey and
Department of Mineral Resources. Results of the study essentially double the estimated recoverable amount
of oil in the Bakken and Three Forks formations. Current estimates now put the amount of recoverable oil from the
Bakken Formation at 2.1 billion barrels and the Three Forks Formation at 1.9 billion.

Beneath the Gulf, drillers uncover
bounty. Despite a tough economy that forced cuts elsewhere, oil and gas producers in 2009 continued
their push into the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, and many of their efforts were rewarded. So far this year,
there have been 12 discoveries in at least 1,000 feet of water, representing some 1.35 billion
barrels of oil equivalent, the most found there in a single year since 2002, according to an analysis by Wood
Mackenzie, an energy industry consulting firm.

NYS:
drill, baby, drill!. The Paterson administration has finally given a green light to proposed drilling
in the Marcellus Shale, considered by many to be the nation's largest natural-gas reservoir. Covering several
states and extending more than 600 miles, the basin may contain as much as six decades' worth of US natural-gas
needs.

Power To Spare.
As Palin jousts with Biden on energy independence, the government reports that we lead the world in energy
reserves. From oil to gas to coal, we are sitting on prosperity. So why are we importing anything?

New
North Dakota Oil Find Could Be a Gusher. Dozens of very productive new wells near North Dakota's
Bakken oil field have state officials believing another massive new oil find may be at hand. A newly
discovered oil field in the Three Forks-Sanish formation is producing high yields, and some analysts believe it
may surpass production in the huge Bakken oil field just above it. The Bakken oil is sandwiched between
shale above and below, while the Three Forks-Sanish oil sits in porous rock and sand directly beneath the
Bakken shale.

Oxy oil discovery could
spark new interest in California's energy potential. The Westwood company revealed in July that
it had found the equivalent of 150 million to 250 million barrels of oil and natural gas in an
undisclosed part of Kern County using techniques that the oil company's executives would rather not talk
about. It was California's biggest find in 35 years. Some experts say it could herald a
period of new exploration in California and the U.S.

Oxy Petroleum's oil and gas
discovery may be California's largest in 35 years. Occidental Petroleum Corp. said it had
discovered oil and natural gas in a Kern County field that might represent the biggest find in California in
more than 35 years. The nation's fourth-biggest oil company said Wednesday [7/22/2009] that it had
found the equivalent of 150 million to 250 million barrels of oil, adding that two-thirds of the new
source was believed to be natural gas.

Cap-and-Trade Bill: Villainy on a Grand Scale.
It is no accident that his Secretary of the Interior unilaterally cancelled 77 oil and gas leases or that, on
March 25, the House of Representatives passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 that adds
two million more acres of wilderness to the 107 million acres already "protected" by the federal
government. It is estimated that 300 million barrels of oil and 8.8 trillion cubic feet of
natural gas lie beneath these "protected" acres. The government owns 607 million acres of land in a
nation founded on the belief in the sanctity and power of private property, the keystone of capitalism.

The Bias Against Oil and Gas. Contrary to popular wisdom, the
United States still has huge oil and natural-gas resources. The outer continental shelf (OCS), including parts that
have been off limits to drilling since the early 1980s, may contain much natural gas and 86 billion barrels of oil,
about four times today's "proven" U.S. reserves. The U.S. Geological Survey recently estimated that the Bakken
Formation in North Dakota and Montana may hold 3.65 billion barrels, about 22 times a 1995 estimate. And
then there's upwards of 2 trillion barrels of oil shale, concentrated in Colorado. If 800 billion barrels
were recoverable, that's triple Saudi Arabia's proven reserves.

Environmental Policy Constrains
U.S. Oil Supply. Consider the volumes of U.S. oil resources. The most conservative measure
is "proven reserves." To be proven, it must be reasonably certain that the crude oil can be produced using
current technology at current prices, current commercial terms, and with government consent. The U.S.
Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimates the U.S. has 21.8 billion barrels of oil (bbo) in "proven
reserves." At today's consumption rates, proven reserves would last 50 years. Yet the amount
of proven reserves might jump to more than 50 billion barrels if the government "consented" to
development of areas now off-limits. And "recoverable reserves" — known oil resources
capable of recovery, but with more cost and technical difficulty than proven reserves — hold
several thousand times more.

Drill,
Drill, Drill. Onshore and offshore drilling restrictions for oil and natural gas have to be
removed. Deregulate the energy sector. Open the door to nuclear power. Drill the shale regions
for natural gas. Exploration has dried up in the new Obama environment, which is so very anti-fossil-fuel
and anti-nuke. If we are going to power our way to economic growth, fossil fuels and nuclear energy have
to play key roles. Alternative-fuel technologies may grow up, but that's gonna take several decades.
Right now they're about 2 percent of our power. That's all.

Start Drilling.
It may surprise Americans to discover that the United States is the third-largest oil producer, behind Saudi Arabia
and Russia. We could be producing more, but Congress has put large areas of potential supply off-limits.
These include the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and parts of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. By government
estimates, these areas may contain 25 billion to 30 billion barrels of oil (against about 30 billion
barrels of proven U.S. reserves today) and 80 trillion cubic feet or more of natural gas (compared with
about 200 tcf of proven reserves).

A crude October
surprise? In 2006, the Interior Department estimated about 85.9 billion barrels of
"undiscovered technically recoverable" oil sit offshore on the Outer Continental Shelf within U.S.
territory. In 2007, the Energy Department's "Task Force on Strategic Unconventional Fuels" reported
that: "America's oil shale resource exceeds 2 trillion barrels, including about 1.5 trillion
barrels of oil equivalent in high quality shales concentrated in the Green River Formation in Colorado, Utah
and Wyoming. ..."

Only
Action Can Put America Back in Drive. First, we must increase production and open up access to explore for
American-made energy. For too long our own precious resources have been off limits, and competing nations are gaining
from our neglect. Right now, China, Venezuela, and others are working with Cuba to extract oil near our waters.
Yet American companies are not able to extract our own resources to provide for American consumers. This is
outrageous. How can we honestly demand OPEC nations pump more oil when we will not even utilize our own resources?

Dakota Oil Fields of
Saudi-Sized Reserves Make Farmers Drillers. Unlike the tar from Canada's oil sands, Bakken crude
needs little refining. Swirl some of it in a Mason jar and it leaves a thin, honey-colored film along
the sides. It's light — almost like gasoline — and sweet, meaning it's low in
sulfur. Best of all, the Bakken could be huge. The U.S. Geological Survey's Leigh Price, a Denver
geochemist who died of a heart attack in 2000, estimated that the Bakken might hold a whopping 413 billion
barrels. If so, it would dwarf Saudi Arabia's Ghawar, the world's biggest field, which has produced about
55 billion barrels.

U.S. Policies Put Most U.S.
Oil Off-Limits to Drilling. Huge basins of untapped oil can be found on federal lands throughout the United
States, according to a new report from the federal government. But much of it cannot — and may never
be — recovered, because it lies under national parks and national monuments, or it is subject to environmental
laws and restrictions that make drilling prohibitive. If you add in the 85.9 billion barrels of oil that lie
offshore, as determined by the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, there are 117 billion barrels
of oil on lands owned or managed by the U.S. government.

Who was in the White House when those "national monument" land grabs took place?Al Gore, the United Nations, and the Cult of Gaia (1999):
[Scroll down] Under President Clinton and Vice President Gore, who is recognized as the driving force behind
the administration's environmental agenda, the American people have witnessed rather extraordinary actions designed
to stop economic development. [President Clinton] designated 1.7 million acres of land in southwest Utah
as a national monument, placing it off limits to development. This area reportedly contains billions of barrels
of oil, minerals and tens of billions of tons of low sulfur clean-burning coal. It could have produced thousands
of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue for the state and federal governments.

Montana
Governor is Sitting on an Oil Mine. Here's some very good news about oil that the manipulators
on Wall Street don't want you to know: there could be as much as 40 billion barrels of crude lying
untouched in eastern Montana.

North Dakota town sitting on oil
jackpot. In this tiny reservation town about two hours from the Canadian border, a Southern
twang is sometimes heard over the din at the local diner and there's talk of Texas tea beneath the streets.
Roughnecks from Texas and Oklahoma have travelled here on hopes that they now share with the town's 1,000 or
so inhabitants — that there is oil in Parshall.

Drivers Say
U.S. Should Drill for Oil on Federal Lands. A recent Department of Interior report, requested by
Congress, estimates there are 139 billion barrels of undiscovered oil in the United States, onshore and
off-shore combined — more than the known oil reserves of Iran, Iraq or Russia. But most of
that oil cannot be tapped because of environmental regulations.

Who Will Pay For Promises Of
Politicians? Congress, doing the bidding of environmental extremists, created our energy supply
problem. Oil and gas exploration in a tiny portion of the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge would, according to a 2002 U.S. Geological Survey's estimate, increase our proven domestic oil
reserves by approximately 50%. The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and eastern Gulf of Mexico offshore areas
have enormous reserves of oil and natural gas. These energy sources of oil have also been placed off-limits
by Congress. Because of onerous regulations, it has been 30-plus years since a new refinery has been
built. Similar regulations also explain why the U.S. nuclear energy production is a fraction of
what it might be.

Is oil's price run-up a problem?
Maybe. Is oil in short supply? No. In fact, the world's ability to produce more oil
than it needs is better now than it was after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, which spotlighted how tight
global oil production had become. Then why are prices going up?

Environmental
Alarmists Have It Backwards. President Bush chides us for our "addiction to oil." But
under current conditions, using oil makes perfect sense. Someday, if we let the free market operate,
someone will find an energy source that works better than oil. Then richer future generations won't need
oil. So why deprive ourselves and make ourselves poorer with needless regulation now? Anyway,
it's not as if we're running out of oil.

State of the Union 2007: A
Counterproductive Energy Policy. Recent Department of the Interior studies, conducted pursuant
to the 2005 energy bill, confirm that the United States has substantial oil and natural gas deposits.
These studies also show that much of these onshore and offshore resources are off-limits due to legal and
regulatory constraints. In fact, America remains the only nation on earth that has restricted access
to a substantial portion of its domestic energy potential. Removing the federal impediments on domestic
exploration and drilling will allow for greater domestic supplies and potentially lower prices in the years
ahead.

Energy Answers Await At Our
Doorstep. As gasoline prices continue to soar, few Americans realize that a key element for
strengthening our energy security is right next door. Nearly 50% of our energy imports come from our
neighbors in the Western Hemisphere. Canada is our single-largest energy supplier, providing 17% of
U.S. oil imports.

Abundant Domestic Supplies are
Off-Limits. The Bureau of Land Management recently published [a report which] concludes that
onshore federal lands are "estimated to contain 187 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 21 billion
barrels of oil, which represents 76 percent of onshore Federal oil and gas resources." That
187 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is enough to supply all of America's households for 39 years, and
21 billion barrels of oil represents over 30 years' worth of current imports from Saudi Arabia.

Abundant energy supplies
off-limits. Good news: The more we look for oil and natural gas in the United States, the
more we find. That might even be great news — if so much of the energy wasn't out of
reach. According to a new Interior Department report, there are substantial onshore energy deposits on
federal lands. A companion study of offshore energy reserves released earlier this year reached the
same conclusion. But both reports found much of this energy is either explicitly off-limits or
hampered by regulatory constraints that effectively make it so.

A Big Dose of Energy Reality.
Representative Richard Pombo, chairman of the House Committee on Resources, will tell anyone who will listen
that "for the foreseeable future, America has no shortage of oil or other traditional energy resources.
Washington, D.C., has a shortage of the political will required to let American workers go get it." For
example, "The United States has enough non-park federal resources to supply natural gas to 100 million
homes for 157 years. But, despite that massive supply, we cannot deliver even one year of
affordable natural gas to Americans right now."

Late Word from the Oil Patch: When
people tell me that America is too dependent on foreign oil imports, I keep telling them we have lots of oil,
but thanks to the environmentalists, our own government has made it either too costly to get at it or access
has been restricted because the bulk of our undeveloped energy resources is found on federal lands or federally
controlled areas offshore. This is what happens when the federal government owns nearly half the landmass
of the nation.

Don't
ignore America's oil reserves. Driving through Sistersville, W.Va., a little town alongside the
Ohio River, you would never know that 110 years ago it was the center of an oil boom. But in the
first decade of the 20th century, if you were in the oil business, it was the place to be.

Natural Gas, America's
Best Bet. There is little question why natural gas is considered the best energy investment due to
its growing demand, environmental advantages, and supply breakthrough that has radically changed the outlook
for cleaner energy. Arguably, shale gas, slated to account for 17 percent of total US natural gas
supply, is the largest story in the energy business in the last 20 years.

BP to spend $1 billion in Alaska's
North Slope. BP announced Monday [6/3/2013] that it will sink $1 billion into revving up crude production from
Alaska's declining North Slope, weeks after the state decided to give the oil industry a $750 million annual tax cut.
The British oil giant plans to add two drilling rigs to its Prudhoe Bay field, bringing the count up to nine, the highest in about
six years. New well work and drilling, along with upgrades of existing facilities, could support 200 new jobs, the company
said.

Morons Who Hate Oil: According to
the US Geological Survey and the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior that regulates America's
on- and off-shore oil reserves, they estimate that America holds more than 21 billion barrels of "proven"
conventional oil reserves. Add to this the estimated 100 billion barrels of oil reserves in the postage
stamp-sized proposed drilling area of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. According to the Congressional
Research Service, America's combined energy resources, oil, coal, and natural gas, are the largest on Earth!

Murkowski
uses rising gas prices to call for opening Alaska's oil fields. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska),
citing rising gas prices, called on the administration Thursday [3/10/2011] to open up Alaska's oil reserves
for further exploration. "We are the only country that has identified a huge resource base and then
absolutely refused to use it," said Murkowski, referring to her state's massive oil reserves that remain
untapped because of their designation as a wildlife refuge. "We need to develop a coherent national
energy policy."

Alaska Can Meet
U.S. Energy Needs. The United States is now facing a decision on how to meet its future energy
needs. In the coming months, the U.S. Department of the Interior will weigh whether to allow oil and
gas exploration on Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to be expanded. Such exploration could set
the country on a clear and sustainable energy path for decades to come.

Peak Government, Not Oil. Science
magazine reports that the U.S. Geological Survey says the Chukchi Sea off Alaska holds more than anyone thought —
1.6 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered gas, or 30% of the world's supply, and 83 billion barrels of undiscovered
oil, 4% of the global conventional resources. The Green River Formation, an oil-rich region in Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming, has been called the "Persia of the West." This formation has the largest known oil shale deposits in the
world, holding from 1.5 trillion to 1.8 trillion barrels of crude.

Seeing Chukchi. Back
in July [2008], ... it was thought that Chukchi's waters northwest of Alaska's landmass held 30 billion cubic feet
of natural gas. Today, Science magazine reports that the U.S. Geological Survey now finds it holds more than anyone
thought — 1.6 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered gas, or 30% of the world's supply and 83 billion
barrels of undiscovered oil, 4% of the global conventional resources. That's enough U.S. energy to achieve
self-sufficiency and never worry about it as a national security question again. The only thing left to
do is drill.

Pipeline, Not Pipe
Dream: Credit Palin. It must be sweet vindication for Alaska's governor. Against
critics who said her 1,712-mile natural gas pipeline project would never get off the ground, who should the
project bag but the "big gorilla" of American energy — Exxon Mobil. In a major surprise,
Exxon announced Thursday [6/11/2009] that it had forged a partnership with TransCanada, the Canadian pipeline
company that holds the state license for Palin's $126 billion Alaska Gasoline Inducement Act project.

Obama's Great Alaska Shutout. President Obama is
campaigning as a champion of the oil and gas boom he's had nothing to do with, and even as his regulators try to stifle it. The latest example is the
Interior Department's little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the "energy needs of the
nation." Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve. The feds had been reviewing four potential development plans, and the state of Alaska had
strongly objected to the most restrictive of the four. Sure enough, that was the plan Interior chose.

Obama Is Right. Every other month, Secretary of the Interior
Ken Salazar withdraws more land from potential energy development. Most recently, he put nearly half of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum
Reserve on Alaska's North Slope off-limits, restricting development to 12 million acres with potentially 549 million barrels of oil.
In 2002, the Reserve, designated almost a century ago by Congress for energy development, was thought to hold 9 billion barrels of oil.
Mysteriously, in 2010, this estimate was reduced to 900 million barrels. People notice when you pull billions of barrels of oil from
potential production. Change the story by redefining the estimate, and the news item goes from page 1 to page 19 when the
administration puts America's resources off-limits.

Obama's Alaska Oil Debacle Is a 'None
of the Above' Energy Policy. The Obama administration's decision to block oil drilling in the National Petroleum
Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) is the latest symbol of an energy policy that could be described as "none of the above." It
is an even worse decision when you consider the recent history of the Reserve, which was partially opened to oil and gas
drilling and exploration by the Clinton administration in the late 1990s.

Obama's Great Alaska Shutout. President Obama is
campaigning as a champion of the oil and gas boom he's had nothing to do with, and even as his regulators try to stifle it. The latest example is the
Interior Department's little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in
Alaska. The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to
meet the "energy needs of the nation." Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve.

Shell gears up to tap into Arctic crude again.
A new chapter in U.S. oil exploration could open within days as Shell sails into seas north of Alaska, hoping to tap into a potential 90 billion
barrels of crude that have beckoned for decades. The company has been there before, drilling exploratory wells in the 1980s and 1990s that
tantalized with promise of riches deep below the freezing Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

Heavy sea ice could mean slight delay in
offshore Arctic drilling. The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade is clinging to the northern coast of Alaska and could postpone the commencement
of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic until the beginning of August — a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said Friday [5/25/2012].
Unveiling the newly refurbished ice-class drilling rig that is poised to commence plumbing two exploratory wells this summer in the Beaufort Sea, Shell executives
said the unusually robust sea ice would further narrow what already is a tight window for operations in a $4-billion program designed to measure the extent of what
could be the United States' most important new inventory of oil and gas.

The Editor says...
Wait a minute. I thought the global warming alarmists said the ice at the North Pole was disappearing! And I thought the environmentalists said there
was no more oil to be found!

Exxon to drill in the Arctic.
The Arctic will have oil rigs. Except they will benefit Russia, not the United States. 21 years
after ridding itself of communism, Russia welcomes capitalism. Meanwhile, the United States government will
celebrate Lenin's birthday on Sunday by calling it Earth Day, an excuse to shutter capitalism in this nation.

Arctic Ocean
drilling: Shell launches preemptive legal strike. Royal Dutch Shell launched an extraordinary preemptive legal
strike Wednesday [2/29/2012] against opponents of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, filing suit against more than a
dozen environmental organizations likely to challenge its plan for drilling exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea this summer.

ANWR — Is President Obama Serious
About Domestic Oil Production? President Obama admitted in the State of the Union that energy
production creates jobs, so why isn't he opening up new areas like the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge (ANWR) for oil and gas production? As we have noted numerous times, the federal government leases a
mere 3 percent of federal lands for energy production. The United States is already the world's third
largest oil producer, but we could produce a lot more oil if the federal government would let the American people
explore for oil on more federal lands.[Italics in original.]

First
permit OK'd for oil drilling in Alaska reserve. After rejecting the project nearly two years ago,
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today [12/19/2011] issued ConocoPhillips a permit to begin work on the first
commercial oil well in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, according to news reports.

Congressman warns Alaska pipeline could be dismantled within 10 years.
The Obama administration is setting the stage for the dismantling of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and poses the
greatest threat to its existence today, according to House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings.
The 800-mile pipeline cost $8 billion to construct in the 1970s, and has moved more than 18 billion
barrels of crude oil. Three oil companies constructed it, in the face of significant opposition from
environmentalists, in response to the 1973 Arab oil embargo.

Our elected leaders are the problem.Drill
in ANWR! A 1998 United States Geological Survey (USGS) study indicates that there are a minimum
of 4.3 billion and possibly (though unlikely) as many as 11.8 billion barrels of oil in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). But ANWR, for all the press it has received, is only the tip of the oil
iceberg. John K. Carlisle, of the National Center for Public Policy Research, claims that the US
likely has more than 110 billion barrels total of recoverable oil (which is five times the estimated
current supply). But we are not drilling for this oil. Why?

Don't Let
the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shut Down. Lack of oil volume due to administration bans on new Alaskan drilling
may force the shutdown of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, denying us even the tens of billions of barrels left in already
developed fields.

Drill, Dems, Drill.
That an Alaskan senator-elect wants to drill in ANWR is not a surprise. That he's a Democrat is. Were
high oil prices what helped push Detroit over the edge?

GOP staking out
offshore drilling as major issue. Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate has served to
underscore the significance Republicans are putting on opening new areas to energy exploration. As governor of
Alaska, Palin championed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling — something even McCain
has opposed.

Alaska's Real Bridge. A recent
study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates found that alternative energy will at best supply 16% of global electric and
transport needs — by 2030. In reality, drilling ANWR is critical, as [Alaska's] two senators urge. "We almost
passed it in 2001," Stevens said. "Some said that if we had acted then, we would have had (the oil) to market right
now." Yes, getting oil into production would take time. But [Sen. Lisa] Murkowski thinks the very act of passing
the bill would damp price speculation.

Feds grim on gas
line. Prospects for an Alaska natural gas pipeline "are more remote than a year ago," and the
holdup is political indecision in Alaska, says a new report from federal energy regulators. … The seven-page
report says the federal government stands ready to move the megaproject forward, but the "main obstacle" is
the state's "failure to resolve" tax or other issues that major oil companies have said must be settled
before they can commit to building the multibillion-dollar pipeline project.

Trans Alaska pipeline could do job for 30 more
years. When engineers first turned the spigot on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1977, they thought it
would run for about 30 years. Accountants were a bit more generous, saying it would be 34 years before the
800-mile, $8 billion asset could be written off the books. But with its 31st anniversary approaching in June, the
pipeline, known as TAPS, is primed for another 30 years.

Alaska governor
wants to tap oil resources. Speaking to a group of Hillsdale College supporters, the governor said,
"Alaska has so many resources to tap into, so that this state can be a contributor, not a recipient of the federal
government." The governor announced that another $30 billion to $40 billion pipeline for natural
gas has just been made possible through the efforts of an independent company for moving natural gas to the lower
48 states and is about to begin construction.

To Drill, or Not to
Drill. Republican presidential candidate John McCain says that he's taking another look at the
possibility of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and as part of that assessment
McCain says that he plans to talk to the nation's most prominent advocate of drilling in ANWR, Alaska governor
Sarah Palin.

Zapped
crude oil flows faster through pipes. Zapping thick crude oil with a magnetic or electric field
could make it flow more smoothly through pipes. The technique, which reduces the viscosity of the liquid,
could make transporting crude through cold underwater pipes easier and cheaper, researchers claim.

Why might Alaskans favor Arctic drilling? A
$2,000 check. This year's Permanent Fund dividend check — what Alaskans receive each
year from the state's oil-revenue investment fund — is likely to be more than $2,000, the first
time since the state began making the payments in 1982 that the dividend has topped two grand. The
biggest previous dividend was $1963.86 in 2000. Last year's was $1,654. The dividend spins off
the Alaska Permanent Fund, the state's $37 billion oil wealth savings account.

Open ANWR. Many votes against
drilling [in Alaska] come from California, Northeastern and Midwestern legislators who have made a career of
railing against high energy prices, "obscene" oil company profits, unemployment and balance of trade
deficits — while simultaneously doing everything possible to constrict supplies, increase demand
and drive up prices. For instance, air quality rules — coupled with a virtual prohibition
on building new nuclear plants — mean that most new electrical generating plants are
gas-fired. So demand for natural gas continues to climb, while domestic supplies continue
to decrease.

Oil Prices
and the Media: Don't Believe the Hype. With regard to folks blocking drilling for oil in
ANWR due to environmental concerns, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) offered the following analogy: If ANWR
was the size of a basketball court, the proposed area for drilling would be the size of a dollar bill. He
also said that if President Clinton had not vetoed ANWR drilling in 1995, the U.S. domestic oil supply be
20 percent higher today.

ANWR and Our Nation's
Energy Future. Many of the same people that are now complaining about our dependence on
foreign oil consistently oppose opening Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to production. This
is not some radical idea. The 1980 law that doubled the size of ANWR to 19 million acres explicitly
called for Congress to develop a process through which exploration and production could be conducted on
the 2000 acre Coastal Plain. Yet, across the past 24 years, anti-development forces in Congress
have ignored America's energy needs and, through the use of filibusters, prevented oil and gas
development. This inaction is irresponsible.

Alaska senators make another push for oil
drilling in ANWR. Hoping to capitalize on consumer concern about gasoline prices, Alaska's two
Republican senators introduced legislation Thursday that would allow oil drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge if the price of oil hits $125 a barrel. With oil hovering near $110 a barrel and
gasoline expected to reach $4 a gallon, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens said that they hoped the
continuing price spiral would spark consumer clamor and overcome opposition to opening the wildlife refuge
to drilling.

The Editor says...
Why wait for $125 a barrel? This issue should have come up when oil hit $40 a barrel.

Green
movement also behind gas hike. What if we had our own Iraq-sized supply that we haven't even
touched yet? We do. According to the U.S. Geological Survey and American Petroleum Institute, we
have at least 112 billion barrels of undrilled oil — "enough to produce gasoline for
60 million cars and fuel oil for 25 million homes for 60 years." By comparison, Iraq has
115 billion barrels and Venezuela 80 billion. At least 16 billion barrels of our oil is
in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Drilling would only touch 8 percent of 17 million
acres — but environmentalists say it's off-limits.

And not only oil...Study: Tap
natural gas from Alaska's frozen areas. Today's technology could extract enough untapped natural
gas, frozen in Alaska's North Slope, to heat millions of homes for years, federal officials announced
Wednesday [11/12/2008]. An estimated 85.4 trillion cubic feet of "undiscovered, technically
recoverable gas" is frozen in the state's North Slope region, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study
released by the Interior Department. The deposits could heat more than 100 million homes for a
decade, the study says.

Thawing Fuel For Palin's
Pipeline. A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey shows that 85.4 trillion cubic feet of
frozen natural gas crystals lie buried beneath Alaska's icy North Slope, a region where the crude production
peaked in 1988 and had to be replaced by imported oil. The frozen gas, known as gas hydrate, is a new
Made-In-U.S.A. energy source that's nearly three times the 30 trillion cubic feet of estimated U.S.
reserves from conventional gas sources; it had not even been counted in current estimates of domestic
energy reserves.

The world is not running out of oil

Biggest
Arctic Gas Project Seeks Route Around U.S. Sanctions. Total SA (FP) and its partners
will use a record 16 ice-breaking tankers to smash through floes en route to and from the Arctic's
biggest liquefied natural-gas development. They're still looking for a way around a freeze in
U.S. financing.

Plunging Oil
Prices Set Off A Global Chess Game. In the U.S., the positives of lower gas prices are
obvious — more money for Americans to spend on other things, less stress in family budgets.
At the same time, lower prices that reflect a global oversupply of oil and gas change the cost-benefit equations
for drilling and fracking. That fact could lower the temperature a bit next year on controversies like
natural-gas fracking. The downside, many analysts point out, is that many wildcatters and smaller
exploration companies need oil above $80 a barrel to survive; [...]

Rosneft
Says Exxon Arctic Well Strikes Oil. Russia, viewed by the Obama administration as
hostile to U.S. interests, has discovered what may prove to be a vast pool of oil in one of the
world's most remote places with the help of America's largest energy company. Russia's state-run
OAO Rosneft (ROSN) said a well drilled in the Kara Sea region of the Arctic Ocean with Exxon Mobil
Corp. (XOM) struck oil, showing the region has the potential to become one of the world's most
important crude-producing areas.

Russian
$8.2 Trillion Oil Trove Locked Without U.S. Tech. Even as the decision to stop gas
supplies to Ukraine aggravates tensions with the U.S. and Europe, Russia faces a dilemma: it still
needs Exxon Mobil Corp., Halliburton Co. and BP Plc to maintain output from Soviet-era oil fields
and develop Arctic and shale reserves. Russia will require Western companies to provide the
modern drilling and production gear — and techniques such as hydraulic fracturing —
that are essential to unlocking its $8.2 trillion worth of barrels still underground.

The World's Resources
Aren't Running Out. How many times have you heard that we humans are "using up" the world's resources,
"running out" of oil, "reaching the limits" of the atmosphere's capacity to cope with pollution or "approaching the
carrying capacity" of the land's ability to support a greater population? The assumption behind all such statements
is that there is a fixed amount of stuff — metals, oil, clean air, land — and that we risk exhausting
it through our consumption. [...] But here's a peculiar feature of human history: We burst through such limits
again and again. After all, as a Saudi oil minister once said, the Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone.

Extracting oil and gas: When bad
news becomes good news. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the royal billionaires, says Saudi Arabia is under "threat" because of
fracking, the technology of extracting gas and oil from energy deposits deep underground. Growing supplies — actual supplies, not merely
reserves — in the U.S. have dramatically cut demand for Saudi oil.

Massive Oil Discovery
Challenges Saudi Reserves. An intelligence brief said that a small Australian town called Coober Pedy has A$20 trillion worth
of shale oil — the biggest find in 50 years, the Money Morning TV reported. The oil deposit is estimated to be
six times larger than the Bakken, 17 times the size of the Marcellus formation, and 80 times larger than the Eagle Ford
shale. The recently discovered Arckaringa Basin, located just outside the sleepy Australian town, contains more oil more than in
all of in Iran, Iraq, Canada, or Venezuela.

Trillions
of dollars worth of oil found in Australian outback. The discovery in central Australia was reported by Linc Energy to the stock exchange and was based
on two consultants reports, though it is not yet known how commercially viable it will be to access the oil. The reports estimated the company's 16 million
acres of land in the Arckaringa Basin in South Australia contain between 133 billion and 233 billion barrels of shale oil trapped in the region's rocks.
It is likely however that just 3.5 billion barrels, worth almost $359 billion (£227 billion) at today's oil price, will be able to be recovered.

America's Big Fat
Advantage. "Peak oil" and our "oil addiction" were supposed to have ensured that we ran out of either gas or the money to
buy it. Now, suddenly, we have more gas and oil than ever before. But the key question is: Why do we?
The oil-and-gas renaissance was brought on by horizontal drilling and fracking that opened up vast new reserves that were previously
either unknown or considered unrecoverable. Both technological breakthroughs were American discoveries, largely brought on by
entrepreneurial mavericks and engineers exploring on mostly private lands.

BP CEO: 'Peak oil' talk quieted
by abundance. BP CEO Robert Dudley said booming oil-and-gas production from sources including onshore shale formations and
deepwater regions has defeated arguments that global oil production will soon peak and go into an irreversible decline. Dudley, in a
speech, noted projections of overall global demand energy growing by over a third by 2030, including the need for around 16 million
more barrels per day at that time. But he said that the ability produce from oil-and-gas reservoirs that were once out-of-reach will
enable supply to keep up.

Is the Theory of 'Peak Oil' Dead?
Yet another voice has questioned the theory of "peak oil," which posits future scarcity, rising prices, and economic collapse due to the
lack of precious fuels that drive the global economy. [...] In North America oil supply has grown annually by roughly 500,000 barrels per
day while demand shrinks because vehicles are increasingly burning less gasoline.

End of an Era: The Death of Peak
Oil. For decades, pundits have been trying to predict a tipping point for Peak Oil — when a sustained and unabated
climb in oil prices sparks a near-collapse of the global economy. According to Peak Oil theory, the rate of petroleum extraction will
crest and then begin an immutable decline, pushing oil prices ever higher as demand for this finite resource permanently exceeds supply.
However, an array of structural shifts in the Energy industry is conspiring to insulate the global economy from any such dramatic increase
in the price of oil. After decades of indifference, pivotal U.S. consumers have radically altered their consumption of petroleum and
related products, moderating demand for the world's largest market. Concurrently, heightened investments and technological
breakthroughs have spurred an explosion in resources, as source rock has expanded the definition of "finite resource."

Great Moments In Failed Predictions.
In 1865, Stanley Jevons (one of the most recognized 19th century economists) predicted that England would run out of coal by 1900, and that
England's factories would grind to a standstill. In 1885, the US Geological Survey announced that there was "little or no chance" of oil
being discovered in California. In 1891, it said the same thing about Kansas and Texas.

Mexico details Gulf
oil find. After more than a dozen attempts, Mexico's national petroleum monopoly has struck significant oil very near the
U.S. boundary in the ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday [8/29/2012]. "This is a
great discovery," Calderon said in announcing the find by Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, beneath more than 8,300 feet of water and
miles of earth, the first successful well in a system that he said ultimately may hold as much as 10 billion barrels of oil.

We face a worldwide glut of oil, with profound implications, most of them good. So much for
peak oil. According to a fascinating new study by Leonardo Maugeri of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the the John F
Kennedy School of Government, we should stop worrying about when the oil runs out and get ready for $70 a barrel prices (using the Brent benchmark).
Likely supply of the black stuff has been significantly underestimated, he reckons, with a veritable glut of new production due to come on stream over
the next eight years. If he's right, we can indeed stop worryng about a lot of things, unless a lover of windfarms and green energy.

No peak oil in sight: We've got an
unprecedented upsurge in global oil production underway. Contrary to what most people believe, oil is not in
short supply and oil supply capacity is growing worldwide at such an unprecedented level that it might outpace consumption.
From a purely physical point of view, there are huge volumes of conventional and unconventional oils still to be developed, with
no "peak-oil" in sight. The full deployment of the world's oil potential depends only on price, technology, and political
factors. More than 80 percent of the additional production under development globally appears to be profitable with
a price of oil higher than $70 per barrel.

Meet The Oil Shale Eighty Times Bigger Than The
Bakken. Everyone has heard about the Bakken shale, the huge expanse of oil-bearing rock underneath North Dakota and Montana that
billionaire Harold Hamm thinks could yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come. The Bakken is a huge boon, both to the
economic health of the northern Plains states, but also to the petroleum balance of the United States. From just 60,000 barrels per day
five years ago, the Bakken is now giving up 500,000 bpd, with 210,000 bpd of that coming on in just the past year. [...] But as great
as the Bakken is, I learned last week about another oil shale play that dwarfs it. It's called The Bazhenov.

British
oil strike off the Falkland Islands. A Huge oil discovery has been made in the Falklands, sources claimed last night
[4/22/2012]. The find, by a British-backed company, could contain up to a BILLION barrels of "black gold" an insider revealed.
The strike across two reservoirs off the Falklands' southern coast was made by oil explorer Borders and Southern.

What If Oil and Natural Gas Are
Renewable Resources? The evidence is mounting that not only do we have more than a century's worth of recoverable oil in the
United States alone (even if there is a limit to the earth's oil supply), but that we also actually have a limitless supply of Texas tea because
oil is in fact a renewable resource that is being constantly created deep under the earth's surface and which rises upward, where microscopic
organisms that thrive in the intense pressure and heat miles below us interact with and alter it.

US
Firm: 3-9 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas Off Cyprus. A top official with United States firm Noble
Energy says a field it is conducting undersea exploratory drilling in off the coast of Cyprus may contain
between 3 to 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Resurging North American Oil Production and the Death
of the Peak Oil Hypothesis. The concept of peak oil is being buried in North Dakota, which is now
leading the US to be the fastest growing oil producer in the world. The belief that global oil production
has peaked, or is on the cusp of doing so, has underpinned much of crude oil's decade-long rally (setting aside the
2008 sell-off). The belief was bolstered by the repeated failure of supply to live up to the optimistic
forecasts put forward by various governmental and international energy agencies. The IEA, the industry
benchmark, made a habit of putting forth forecasts for the coming year of big gains in non-OPEC supply, only to
spend the next 18 months revising those forecasts lower.

Monbiot: wrong again — 'Peak
Oil' this time. Until recently George "Reverse-Cassandra" Monbiot was very, very worried about Peak Oil. [...] So you might not unreasonably
imagine that, were he ever to discover that the "Peak Oil" threat was nothing to worry about and that there was more than enough extractable oil to supply
our needs for the foreseeable future, the Moonbat would be over the moon. Right? Wrong! Here is what George Monbiot airily declared
yesterday [7/2/2012] — sounding for all the world as if he'd read neither Watermelons nor a James Delingpole blogpost in his entire life.

RIP: Peak Oil — we
won't be running out any time soon. The death of Peak Oil kicks away the underpinnings from a
great deal of policy-making by our bureaucracies and their advisers. Over the past two decades, we've
seen the mushrooming of the "sustainability" sector, which is almost completely dependent on state funding and
which shares similar erroneous assumptions. The proposition we're invited to accept in each case is that
modern industrial society is founded on a resource which is being depleted and which cannot be easily
replaced. The second part of that is rather crucial.

Rising
Oil Production in Alberta: More Evidence Disproving Hubbert's Peak. [There was a] theory first offered
by M. King Hubbert in 1956 that claimed that oil production in the United States would reach its peak between
1965 and 1970 and begin to decline thereafter. It was based upon the assumption that the amount of oil reserves
is fixed and that it is analogous, according to peak theory supporter Colin Campbell, to a glass of beer: "The
glass starts full and ends empty, and the faster you drink it, the quicker it's gone." From that theory, Hubbert
then claimed that this would drastically alter life in the United States, predicting chaos, war, starvation, economic
decline and possibly even the extinction of mankind.

Peak oil: Although supporters
of peak oil theory are correct that new oil discoveries over the last several decades have been smaller than in
the past, it is unknown how much crude oil is yet to be discovered. Predictions about hitting peak oil in
the near term might be correct, but there are at least four reasons for optimism that they are not. First,
high oil prices induce more exploration by oil companies.

Has Petroleum Production
Peaked, Ending the Era of Easy Oil? Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North
Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada, fresh supplies of petroleum are only
just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil
plateau — roughly 75 million barrels of oil produced each and every day — since at least
2005, according to a new comment published in Nature on January 26.

The Editor says...
Oil production has never been easy. Therefore, any prediction of the end of "easy oil" is misleading
at best.

Peak Oil Scam is Based Upon Ideological,
Fact-Blind Liberalism. While it cannot come as a surprise after so many liberal hoaxes, it's
still shocking to find we've been duped again — this time by the "Peak Oil" myth. Peak Oil is
the theory the world is on the verge of a catastrophic decline in global petroleum reserves that will result
in major energy crises causing chaos across the world. This notion has now been proved demonstrably
false — yet, how was it accepted in the first place?

There
Will Be Oil. Since the beginning of the 21st century, a fear has come to pervade
the prospects for oil, fueling anxieties about the stability of global energy supplies. ... The
date of the predicted peak has moved over the years. It was once supposed to arrive by
Thanksgiving 2005. Then the "unbridgeable supply demand gap" was expected "after 2007."
Then it was to arrive in 2011. Now "there is a significant risk of a peak before 2020."
But there is another way to visualize the future availability of oil: as a "plateau."

Hubbert's Peak or Yergin's
Plateau? Peak Oil's fundamental assumption is that the supply of oil is finite and fixed.
The peak of the oil production curve is reached when half of the total resource base has been produced, so
rate vs time exhibits a symmetric bell-shaped curve. Post peak, rate declines rapidly. Hubbert
demonstrated a peak for oil production in Texas, and he extended his theory to correctly predict the time (but
not the rate) of the peak for the U.S. World oil production is supposed to have peaked in the last five years
or so. But Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a Pulitzer
Prize-winning author, argues...

Controversy
Over Oil Sands Pipeline Project Approval. A 4-by-8-mile pit deep in the wilderness of northwest
Canada is taking center stage in America's energy debate. The Athabasca tar sands in Alberta Province is
the largest mine in what is the second largest oil reserve in the world, behind only Saudi Arabia. The
United States gets 20 percent of its imported oil from Canada, about half of it coming from the vast
Athabasca tar sands. And now there are plans to more than double the oil sands production and pipe nearly
all of the oil through a new pipeline that would take it to refineries in Texas.

Is There Any Real Shortage of Oil?
The Peak Oil Theory was largely the invention of geophysicist M. King Hubbert, with his prediction "that the
fossil fuel era would be of very short duration." He originally published a world production curve on the
theory in 1956, using the prediction that the world oil production would peak in 1970. That prediction
of course proved to be quite untrue, but that does not stop those who want to shut down our oil production.

Peak renewables.
The "peak oil" scare has long been used as an excuse for alternative-energy providers to demand government
subsidies. We are told that oil production will reach a zenith and the wells will run dry any day now,
so failure to provide billions in handouts to the providers of other fuels would be irresponsible. Forget
peak oil — the world may be on the verge of peak renewables. The much-hyped intermittent energy
sources such as solar and wind have proved so expensive to maintain that other developed nations are trimming
subsidies.

Energy Independence:
Are You Serious? At last, some promising energy news. A new discovery of oil and gas in an
unexplored region is leading to hope for potentially more energy than that possessed by the oil-rich nation of
Libya. Enough energy to make every man, woman, and child an instant millionaire. Americans can only
dream about this happy news, because the new discovery is not in the U.S. It is off the west coast of Greenland.

Rockhopper
shares jump after raising Falklands oil estimate. Rockhopper, the Falklands oil exploration
company, ... announced today [4/4/2011] that it believes there are at least 155m barrels of oil extractable
from the Sea Lion well, which is some 80 miles north of the Falkland Islands. Rockhopper estimated
in June that there would be a minimum of 57m barrels recoverable from the site.

Global warming and
the 'settled science' baloney. [Scroll down] Indeed, most big scientific questions are
unsettled, from galaxy formation to the origins of the moon. Closer to home, even 150 years after
the first commercial extraction of oil in western Pennsylvania, the mechanism of hydrocarbon formation is
still a hotly contested issue. While most petroleum geologists believe that oil and natural gas
resulted from the slow anaerobic decomposition of biomass over eons, many others believe that hydrocarbons
are an abiotic product of simple chemical reactions in the deep earth crust. The relative numbers of
scientists in the two camps do not speak to which explanation is correct. Scientific truth is not
decided by polls.

Deep oil: a
giant discovery. BP has announced a "giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, drilled to
a total depth of 35,055 feet. Drilling began at a depth of 4,132 feet below the surface of the
water. No further details of the magnitude of the discovery are being released. But this is
further evidence that deep oil and gas deposits may dwarf the resources discovered at shallower depths.

BP's oil find is big, but miles
out and down. A major new oil discovery by BP in the Gulf of Mexico underscores the potential
of a highly touted deep-water area where other oil companies also scored big in recent years, but the task of
producing the crude has just begun.

BP Finds
'Giant' Oil Source Deep Under Gulf of Mexico. BP said Wednesday [9/2/2009] that it made a
"giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, and analysts said that the find deep below the sea floor
raised hopes that further exploration in the region could help sustain U.S. offshore oil production.
The discovery, known as Tiber, was made 250 miles southeast of Houston and was "in the same league" as
other big fields BP has discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said.

Canada's Oil Bonanza.
Canada has the oil the American economy desperately needs — and then some. So why do we
treat this and other energy allies like pariahs?

The
Problem's Not Peak Oil, It's Politics. Some "peak oil" cassandras warn that global energy
production will soon fall into permanent decline. But a more immediate danger to world oil supplies
may be the tempestuous politics of many producing countries.

Morons Who Hate Oil: Are we
running out of oil? No. Let me repeat. No. There is no such thing as "peak oil" because
every time someone has made the prediction that we are using up all the oil, we find some more. This not
to say the Obama administration will let oil companies drill for it in America. Not only do we pay less for
domestic oil as opposed to importing it, but we have so much domestic oil we wouldn't have to import it.

The World
Has Plenty of Oil. The world is not running out of oil anytime soon. A gradual transitioning
on the global scale away from a fossil-based energy system may in fact happen during the 21st century. The
root causes, however, will most likely have less to do with lack of supplies and far more with superior
alternatives. The overused observation that "the Stone Age did not end due to a lack of stones" may in
fact find its match.

Environmentalists Still Can't Get
It Right. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced that there was "little or no chance" of
oil being discovered in California, and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In
1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior said American oil supplies would last only another 13 years.
In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned
nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had
only a 10-year supply of natural gas.

Peak Oil: An Idea Whose
Time Is Up. Some analysts believe that investors who have swallowed the peak oil theory are
pricing oil higher because they fear the world is running out of crude and permanent shortages are nigh.
They shouldn't believe it.

Have
we underestimated total oil reserves? Black gold might not be as scarce as we thought. This
week oil prices escalated to a record $139 per barrel, but that may partly be because the amount of available
oil in known reserves has been significantly underestimated. So says Richard Pike, a former oil-industry
adviser and chief executive of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry, who blames flawed statistical calculations.

World has enough oil
supplies for 'many decades': Nuaimi. Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said on Sunday [6/22/2008]
the world has enough crude to last for "many decades" and that his country will invest massively to be able to
produce 15 million barrels a day. "The world has enough petroleum reserves, both conventional and
non-conventional, to meet oil demand for many, many decades to come," Nuaimi told a summit in Jeddah of top
consumers and producers.

Kuwait oil lifespan 115 years.
The lifespan of Kuwait's oil fields could prolong to 115 years if state-of-the-art technologies are tapped,
according to a new book released by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Kuwait's confirmed oil reserves are
101.5 billion barrels, the book said, citing British Petroleum (BP) figures in 2005. Now that
Kuwait's daily oil output is 2.415 million barrels according to February 2007 statistics, the lifespan
of oil fields is 42,029 days or 115 years, the book said.

Why So High? According to [the American
Petroleum Institute], "The U.S. government estimates that deepwater regions of the Gulf of Mexico may
contain 71 billion barrels of oil." API estimates that there are 10.5 billion barrels off the
shores of California and the Pacific Northwest, 3.8 billion barrels off the Atlantic coastline, and
18 billion barrels onshore and 26.6 billion barrels off the Alaska coast and in the Alaska
National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This adds up to 138.1 billion barrels of oil, enough to power
over 60 million automobiles for 60 years according to government estimates. (These same
reservoirs could supply 656 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, sufficient to heat 60 million
homes for the next 160 years.)

Peak Oil Is a Waste of Energy.
Remember "peak oil"? It's the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for
global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age and, potentially, economic
catastrophe. Well, just when we thought that the collapse in oil prices since last summer had put
an end to such talk, ...

The IEA Puts a Date on Peak Oil Production.
Faith Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA), believes that if no big new
discoveries are made, "the output of conventional oil will peak in 2020 if oil demand grows on a
business-as-usual basis."

At this point, it's anybody's gas! (That's a pun.)How much oil lies beneath the Earth's
crust? The only thing we know for sure is that history is littered with estimates so far off the
mark — usually below the mark — that they border on the comical. In the 1920s, for
instance, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (now BP) refused to take a stake in Saudi Arabia, thinking that the country
didn't hold a single drop of oil. In 1919, the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that the United States
would run out of oil in nine years. Yet by the time nine years had passed, huge discoveries, topped by
the Black Giant field in Texas, had created a massive oil glut that almost destroyed the industry.

World oil supplies are set to run out
faster than expected, warn scientists. Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's
remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are
prepared to admit. BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, published yesterday, appears to show that
the world still has enough "proven" reserves to provide 40 years of consumption at current rates.
The assessment, based on officially reported figures, has once again pushed back the estimate of when the
world will run dry.

Running out of
oil? "Proven" oil reserves, oil that's economically and technologically recoverable, are
estimated to be more than 1.1 trillion barrels. That's enough oil, at current usage rates, to fuel
the world's economy for 38 years, according to Leonardo Maugeri, vice president for the Italian energy
company ENI. … There are an additional 2 trillion barrels of "recoverable" reserves.
Mr. Maugeri says these oil reserves will probably meet the "proven" standard in a few years as
technological improvement and increased sub-soil knowledge come online.

We Are Not Running
Out of Oil. Every time oil prices rise for an extended period, the news media issue
dire warnings that a crisis is upon us — it's not! Many factors are contributing
to the currently high gas prices: limited refining capacity, political restrictions on development
of new domestic sources of oil, reduced supply from several oil exporting countries due to political
conflicts, limited supplies due to the actions of the oil cartel, OPEC, and finally, increased demand
for oil in China. Dwindling supplies of oil is not a factor in the current price at the pump.

Geologist: Earth has lots and
lots of oil. A University of Washington economic geologist says there is lots of crude oil left
for human use. Eric Cheney said Friday in a news release that changing economics, technological advances
and efforts such as recycling and substitution make the world's mineral resources virtually infinite.

The Peak Oil Myth: The U.S.
had 321 refineries in 1981; the U.S. has 149 oil refineries today. Many plants operate 24 hours a
day (with no down-time for maintenance) to supply the growing demand for fuel, and to comply
with EPA regulations that require refineries to formulate different types of gasoline in
different regions of the country at different times of the year.

Plenty of oil left in
the global tank. [Scroll down] The most important reason for rejecting the "peak oil is here"
argument, however, is that current production reflects investment decisions taken years ago, when prices were
much lower. It was only just over three years ago that oil rose above $40 a barrel. A few years
earlier it was $10-$11. Higher prices will bring more output on stream.

Oil is Not a fossil fuel. [In the
1940s] Stalin's team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a 'fossil fuel' but is a natural
product of planet earth — the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium
carbonate and iron oxide — two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth's crust. This
continuous reaction occurs at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of approximately 50,000
atmospheres (5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately 1500°C, and will continue more or less until
the 'death' of planet earth in millions of years' time.

IEA Sees No Twilight for Saudi Oil.
Mark Twain's old line about the reports of his death being greatly exaggerated might apply to the Saudis.
If this year's oil production results and the 2008 predictions are to be believed, then the Saudis are going
to continue to dominate the global oil business.

Aramco Chief Debunks Peak Oil.
"We have grossly underestimated mankind's ability to find new reserves of petroleum, as well as our capacity
to raise recovery rates and tap fields once thought inaccessible or impossible to produce." So said
Abdallah S. Jum'ah, Saudi Aramco's president and CEO, during his address at the 11th Congress of the
World's Energy Council in Rome last November. With the mass media focused on soaring oil prices and
publishing a rash of peak oil stories, Jum'ah's latest contribution to the peak oil debate has gone
largely unreported.

Oil Prices: Cause and
Effect. The price of crude didn't rise from $12 in early 1999 to nearly $60 because
the world suddenly ran out of oil. On the contrary, the world supply of petroleum has risen
10 percent since then, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), from 65.8 million
barrels a day in 1999 to 72.5 million in 2004.

Natural Gas Needs No Dinosaurs to
Form. Credible scientists have now demonstrated that methane, the main ingredient of
natural gas, can form inorganically, as a result of natural processes that involve no biological
material whatsoever — no dead dinosaurs, no rotting ancient forests, not even any little
plankton trapped in the soil.

Endless
oil. Do dead dinosaurs fuel our cars? The assumption that they do, along with other dead
matter thought to have formed what are known as fossil fuels, has been an article of faith for centuries. ... Sooner
or later, we will run out of liquefied dinosaurs and be forced to turn to either nuclear or renewable fuels,
virtually everyone believes. Except in Russia and Ukraine. What is to us a matter of scientific
certainty is by no means accepted there. Many Russians and Ukrainians — no slouches in the
hard sciences — have since the 1950s held that oil does not come exclusively, or even partly, from
dinosaurs but is formed below the Earth's 25-mile deep crust.

Obama and the Alternative Energy Fiasco:
[Scroll down] All of these things are happening at a time when natural gas is abundant and cheap. ... Many
cars could run on natural gas, much like many buses do already. ... New technologies continually revive old oil
and gas fields and make new ones economically viable. So it's little more than socialist Malthusianism to
argue that the world is running out of cheap energy.

Peak Government, Not Oil. The
chief economist of the International Energy Agency says the world is running out of oil. We've been told that
for the last 150 years. The only thing we're running out of is the will to drill.

Peak Oil: A Theory Running
Out Of Gas. One year ago, Congress responded to the chorus of Americans calling for more
American energy by lifting the ban on offshore drilling. For the first time in a quarter-century, it
became legal to drill for more oil and natural gas reserves offshore. This anniversary allows us to look
back on how far we have come since 2008. The sad reality is we have barely moved.

Petrobras: Oil
field may have 380 million barrels. Brazil's state-run oil company says it has found a new offshore oil
reserve that could hold nearly 400 million barrels of oil equivalent. Petroleo Brasileiro SA says in a statement
that the pre-salt reservoir was discovered 14,633 feet (4,460 meters) below the ocean floor off the coast of
Rio de Janeiro.

Giant oil pipeline in the works
from Alberta to the Gulf. In the coming weeks, the Obama administration will decide if it wants to
significantly increase the amount of oil the country imports from Canada's controversial Alberta oil sands. The
State Department is set to issue what could be a final ruling to allow a massive new pipeline expansion from central
Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. A decision is expected early in the new year.

There Is No Gas Shortage.
Gasoline reserves on hand are at the highest levels since the early 1990s, which is remarkable considering the
nation's refineries have been cutting back on the production of gasoline because their margins have declined.
In fact, average gasoline reserves on hand have risen since this past October [2007], while oil reserves in this
country have gone up virtually every week this year — and only fog in the Houston Ship Channel that kept oil
tankers from unloading their crude one week kept it from being every week.

Oil Is Not A Fossil Fuel. To begin with,
oil is not a fossil fuel. This is a theory put forth by 18th century scientists. Within 50 years,
Germany and France's scientists had attacked the theory of petroleum's biological roots. In fact, oil is
abiotic, not the product of long decayed biological matter. And oil, for better or for worse, is not a
non-renewable resource. It, like coal, and natural gas, replenishes from sources within the mantle of
earth. This is the real and true science of oil. Read all about it.

The Myth Of Peak Oil: Peak
oil is a scam designed to create artificial scarcity and jack up prices while giving the state an excuse to
invade our lives and order us to sacrifice our hard-earned living standards. ... The analysis of the oil now
being produced at Eugene Island shows that its age is geologically different from the oil produced there after
the refinery first opened. Suggesting strongly that it is now emerging from a different, unexplained
source. The last estimates of probable reserves shot up from 60 million barrels to 400 million
barrels. Both the scientists and geologists from the big oil companies have seen the evidence and
admitted that the Eugene Island oil field is refilling itself. This completely contradicts peak oil
theory and with technology improving at an accelerating pace it seems obvious that there are more Eugene
Islands out there waiting to be discovered.

Is There Any Real Shortage of Oil? The Peak Oil Theory was
largely the invention of geophysicist M. King Hubbert, with his prediction "that the fossil fuel era would
be of very short duration." He originally published a world production curve on the theory in 1956, using
the prediction that the world oil production would peak in 1970. That prediction of course proved to be
quite untrue, but that does not stop those who want to shut down our oil production. They just revise it
when facts force them to, and continue with the theory and their efforts to shut down our oil production as
much as possible.

Peak Oil,
Entirely Nonsense: As is Peak Gas. One of the things that really rather annoys me about the peak oil
(and in the UK, there's a similar one about peak gas) argument is that it entirely ignores the impact of changing
technology. ... Now that we've developed fracking, to do what geology hasn't done in the far more numerous shales,
there just really isn't any long term, long term meaning century or more, shortage of oil and or gas.

Fracking:
The Radical Left's Latest Weapon of Fear. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter warned Americans of a
pending "national catastrophe" in a prime time nationally televised speech. "The Oil and natural gas we
rely on for 75 percent of our energy are running out." Resources were being depleted so fast that
the world "could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade,"
Carter said. Rather obviously, Carter's end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it prediction didn't happen. ... Instead
of running out of oil and gas as Carter predicted, the inventory of America's recoverable domestic reserves has
increased dramatically.